Sawyer, OK 74756 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Sawyer, OK, ZIP 74756
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 212 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Sawyer, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Sawyer has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Sawyer's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sawyer compares
Sawyer's growing season runs about 212 days, ranking 14,672 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 434 of 764.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Sawyer can differ from the 74756 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Sawyer's frost date answer different questions.