Lake Aluma, OK 73155 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.
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
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 13,645 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within OK, it ranks 286 of 764.
Learn more
Before leaning on 73155's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lake Aluma's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lake Aluma can differ from the 73155 normal.