McLoud, OK 74857 Frost Dates
74857, near McLoud, OK: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
McLoud sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
McLoud'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.
McLoud against the rest of the dataset
McLoud's growing season runs about 221 days, ranking 12,507 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 127 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74857: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and McLoud's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around McLoud's dates instead of trusting one.