Okemah, OK 74859 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Okemah, OK?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/24, roughly 208 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 229 frost-free days later.
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 Okemah, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Okemah before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Okemah compares
At roughly 229 frost-free days, Okemah places 10,592 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 33 of 764.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7b and Okemah's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Okemah's dates instead of trusting one.