Wright City, OK 74766 Frost Dates
74766, near Wright City, OK: the frost window
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
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 Wright City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wright City'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.
Why 04/09 isn't a guarantee
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.
Wright City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 201 frost-free days, Wright City places 17,620 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 647 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74766: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Wright City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Wright City's dates instead of trusting one.