Shady Point, OK 74956 Frost Dates
74956, near Shady Point, OK: the frost window
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 210 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 Shady Point, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Shady Point's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/06 isn't a guarantee
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Shady Point against the rest of the dataset
About 210 days separate Shady Point's last and first frost, putting it 15,047 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 475 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74956: the frost range, on how to read the range around Shady Point's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Shady Point can differ from the 74956 normal.