Lake Aluma, OK 73137 Frost Dates
Lake Aluma, OK: when does the frost end?
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
With roughly 10 weeks until Lake Aluma's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
About 217 days separate Lake Aluma's last and first frost, putting it 13,636 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 277 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73137's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Lake Aluma's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Aluma's dates instead of trusting one.