Bokchito, OK 74726 Frost Dates
74726, near Bokchito, OK: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/19, about 203 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 237 days after the last spring frost.
Bokchito sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Bokchito's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bokchito against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 237 frost-free days, Bokchito places 9,144 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 15 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74726: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Bokchito's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bokchito's dates instead of trusting one.