Lake Aluma, OK 73126 Frost Dates
73126, near Lake Aluma, OK: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lake Aluma in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
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.
The actual range around Lake Aluma's last frost
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 13,634 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within OK, it ranks 275 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73126: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake Aluma can differ from the 73126 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Lake Aluma's frost date answer different questions.