Loveland, OK 73553 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Loveland, OK, ZIP 73553
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/10, about 229 frost-free days later.
Loveland sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Loveland has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/08 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Loveland compares
At roughly 229 frost-free days, Loveland places 10,680 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 53 of 764.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Loveland's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Loveland's dates instead of trusting one.