Hochatown, OK 74728 Frost Dates
74728, near Hochatown, OK: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Hochatown 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
Hochatown'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 Hochatown's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hochatown against the rest of the dataset
Hochatown's growing season runs about 226 days, ranking 11,297 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 77 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74728: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Hochatown's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hochatown's dates instead of trusting one.