Roland, OK 74954 Frost Dates
74954, near Roland, OK: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/25, roughly 209 days out. 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 Roland 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
Roland'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 Roland's last frost
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.
Roland against the rest of the dataset
Roland's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,866 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 93 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74954: local microclimates, on what one yard in Roland can differ from the 74954 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Roland's frost date answer different questions.