Lake Aluma, OK 73153 Frost Dates
73153, near Lake Aluma, OK: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. 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.
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 13,644 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 285 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73153: 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 73153 normal.