Lake Aluma, OK 73113 Frost Dates
73113, near Lake Aluma, OK: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
Lake Aluma 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lake Aluma'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
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Aluma against the rest of the dataset
Lake Aluma's growing season runs about 217 days, ranking 13,632 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 273 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73113: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lake Aluma's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake Aluma can differ from the 73113 normal.