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McCurtain, OK 74943 Frost Dates

McCurtain, OK: when does the frost end?

Zone 7b

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 McCurtain, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 10 weeks until McCurtain's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

Why 03/23 isn't a guarantee

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.

McCurtain against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 228 frost-free days, McCurtain places 10,913 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 61 of 764.

Learn more

Before leaning on 74943's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in McCurtain can differ from the 74943 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and McCurtain's frost date answer different questions.