Boley, OK 74829 Frost Dates
74829, near Boley, OK: the frost window
Around 03/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 208 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 229 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 Boley, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Boley'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Boley against the rest of the dataset
About 229 days separate Boley's last and first frost, putting it 10,628 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 36 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74829: the frost range, on how to read the range around Boley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Boley can differ from the 74829 normal.