Hochatown, OK 74724 Frost Dates
74724, near Hochatown, OK: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Hochatown, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hochatown's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Hochatown's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hochatown against the rest of the dataset
About 201 days separate Hochatown's last and first frost, putting it 17,655 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 650 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74724: local microclimates, on what one yard in Hochatown can differ from the 74724 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Hochatown's frost date answer different questions.