Paden, OK 74860 Frost Dates
Paden, OK: when does the frost end?
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.
Paden 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Paden's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Paden'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.
Paden against the rest of the dataset
About 229 days separate Paden's last and first frost, putting it 10,651 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 43 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 74860's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Paden's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Paden can differ from the 74860 normal.