Albion, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Albion, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Albion lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Albion — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Albion — the short answer
Albion, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 234 days between hard freezes, across 151 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~234
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 151 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7b is Albion's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Albion's 234-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Albion
Each reading below is measured for Albion itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAlbion runs about 234 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAlbion sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Albion is in
Albion sits in the Ouachita Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Albion's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pushmataha County.
What Grows in Albion
Every plant below cleared Albion's own zone 7b and its 234-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Albion?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Albion
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Albion. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Eagle Repair ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- Long's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- Albion SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Rocking H Handy StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- Mrs Herbert MoodyUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.4 mi
- E-Z Mart #4350Underground Storage Tanks · 6.4 mi
- E-Z Mart #4224Underground Storage Tanks · 6.5 mi
- Valley Super FoodsUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- Mrs J'sUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- Charlies GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- Tidwell's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
- The Little StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Albion's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Albion.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Albion
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Albion, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 31 sites within ~10 miles of Albion. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Albion
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Albion average
Your land is one point inside Albion
Everything above resolves to Albion as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 151 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Albion Average
Albion Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Albion
- ●One soil character for all of Albion
- ●Frost dates read at Albion's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Albion's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Albion
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Albion, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Albion averages can't show:
We read public map data around Albion — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Albion average
How we know this about Albion
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Albion’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Albion
When does frost risk typically end in Albion?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Albion typically lands around Mar 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 11.
When is the first frost in Albion?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Albion typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 234 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Albion?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Albion sees about 234 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Oct 27, about 199 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Albion?
The federal record around Albion is light — 31 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (31), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Albion?
From about Oct 11 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Albion's scale — its 7b band and its 234-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Albion's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Albion’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Albion's own scale — its own ~234-day season between 28°F freezes, the 151 acres it covers and 31 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Albion's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Albion's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 10 and the ~234-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 31 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Albion, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Albion's boundary and the 151 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~234-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Albion's own centroid, the Ouachita MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Albion's 151 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pushmataha County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pushmataha County
- The growing challenges every Oklahoma grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Oklahoma
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Pushmataha County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Albion's 151 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Albion you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 151 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Albion-wide figureread your own land →