Holdenville, OK 74848 Frost Dates
74848, near Holdenville, 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 Holdenville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Holdenville'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 Holdenville's last frost
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.
Holdenville against the rest of the dataset
Holdenville's growing season runs about 229 days, ranking 10,571 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 31 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74848: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Holdenville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Holdenville's dates instead of trusting one.