Moffett, OK 74946 Frost Dates
74946, near Moffett, OK: the frost window
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.