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Moffett, OK 74946 Frost Dates

74946, near Moffett, OK: the frost window

Zone 8a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Moffett in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Moffett'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

03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Moffett against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 224 frost-free days, Moffett places 11,986 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 105 of 764.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 74946: local microclimates, on what one yard in Moffett can differ from the 74946 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Moffett's frost date answer different questions.