Antlers, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Antlers, 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 Antlers lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Antlers — the short answer
Antlers, Oklahoma: USDA zone 8a, about 242 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~242
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 2K 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 8a is Antlers's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Antlers's 242-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Antlers
Each reading below is measured for Antlers itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAntlers runs about 242 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
MeasuredAntlers sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Antlers is in
Antlers sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Antlers's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Pushmataha County is mostly Ouachita Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Antlers
Every plant below cleared Antlers's own zone 8a and its 242-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Antlers?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Antlers
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Antlers. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- City of AntlersUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- Antlers Water Treatment PlantUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- Roy Jackson Motor CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- Jim Maple Auto SalesUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- Al's Nest Citgo Station Convenient StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- Former Loveday Bulk StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #6609Brownfields · 1200 ft
- Section 4 - T4S - R16EUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- David W. ColeUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Former Regal Oak Station # 1712Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Bell Gas (702)Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Wilson K-MUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Antlers'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 Antlers.
Total Sites
48
within ~10 miles of Antlers
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Antlers
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Antlers
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Antlers, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 42 sites within ~10 miles of Antlers. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Antlers
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Antlers
Everything above resolves to Antlers as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 city 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 Antlers Average
Antlers Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Antlers
- ●One soil character for all of Antlers
- ●Frost dates read at Antlers's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Antlers's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Antlers
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Antlers, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Antlers averages can't show:
We read public map data around Antlers — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Antlers average
How we know this about Antlers
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Antlers’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Antlers
When does frost risk typically end in Antlers?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Antlers typically lands around Mar 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Antlers?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Antlers typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 242 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Antlers?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Antlers sees about 242 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Oct 30, about 207 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Antlers?
The federal record around Antlers is light — 48 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (42), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 Antlers?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Antlers's scale — its 8a band and its 242-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Antlers'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 Antlers’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Antlers's own scale — its own ~242-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,990 acres it covers and 48 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Antlers's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Antlers's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 13 and the ~242-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 48 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Antlers, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Antlers's boundary and the 1,990 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~242-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Antlers sits in the South Central Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Antlers's 1,990 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 Antlers's 1,990 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Antlers you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,990 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 Antlers-wide figureread your own land →