Krebs, OK 74502 Frost Dates
74502, near Krebs, OK: the frost window
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Krebs sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Krebs's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Krebs's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Krebs against the rest of the dataset
Krebs's growing season runs about 216 days, ranking 13,813 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 328 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74502: the frost range, on how to read the range around Krebs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Krebs can differ from the 74502 normal.