Keota, OK 74941 Frost Dates
74941, near Keota, OK: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 228 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 Keota, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Keota'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 Keota's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 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.
Keota against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Keota places 10,904 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 57 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74941: local microclimates, on what one yard in Keota can differ from the 74941 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Keota's frost date answer different questions.