Maud, OK 74854 Frost Dates
74854, near Maud, OK: the frost window
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Maud in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Maud'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
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Maud against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Maud places 12,549 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 130 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74854: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Maud's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Maud's dates instead of trusting one.