Sallisaw, OK 74955 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Sallisaw, OK?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 228 frost-free days later.
Sallisaw sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Sallisaw before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Sallisaw's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sallisaw compares
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Sallisaw places 10,783 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 54 of 764.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 7b and Sallisaw's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Sallisaw's dates instead of trusting one.