Badger Lee, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Badger Lee, 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 Badger Lee 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 Badger Lee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Badger Lee — the short answer
Badger Lee, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 249 days between hard freezes, across 452 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~249
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 452 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 Badger Lee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Badger Lee's 249-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Badger Lee
Each reading below is measured for Badger Lee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBadger Lee runs about 249 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
MeasuredBadger Lee 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 Badger Lee is in
Badger Lee sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Badger Lee's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Sequoyah County is mostly Boston Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Badger Lee
Every plant below cleared Badger Lee's own zone 7b and its 249-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Badger Lee?
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 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 19 — 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 Badger Lee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Badger Lee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Ruan TransportUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- CAVENHAM FOREST INDUSTRIES, LLCBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- E-Z Mart #4286Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Casey's General Store #3510Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- US COAST GUARD MUSKINGUM WLR 75402Brownfields · 1.3 mi
- Former Coal Dump StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- C & B Sav-A-TripUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Maple Street Corner StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- PENCE TOWING SVCBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- Pierce Feed and FuelUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- L&L Convenience Store DBA Pit StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Cox's #2Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Badger Lee'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 Badger Lee.
Total Sites
116
within ~10 miles of Badger Lee
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Badger Lee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Badger Lee
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Badger Lee
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 Badger Lee average
Your land is one point inside Badger Lee
Everything above resolves to Badger Lee as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 452 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 Badger Lee Average
Badger Lee Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Badger Lee
- ●One soil character for all of Badger Lee
- ●Frost dates read at Badger Lee's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Badger Lee's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Badger Lee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Badger Lee, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Badger Lee averages can't show:
We read public map data around Badger Lee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Badger Lee average
How we know this about Badger Lee
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 Badger Lee’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 Badger Lee
When does frost risk typically end in Badger Lee?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Badger Lee typically lands around Mar 15, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Badger Lee?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Badger Lee typically arrives around Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 5, so the watching starts about Oct 20 — about 249 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Badger Lee?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Badger Lee sees about 249 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Nov 5, about 214 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Badger Lee?
The federal record around Badger Lee is a meaningful one — 116 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (69), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Badger Lee?
From about Oct 20 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Badger Lee's scale — its 7b band and its 249-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Badger Lee'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 Badger Lee’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Badger Lee's own scale — its own ~249-day season between 28°F freezes, the 452 acres it covers and 116 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Badger Lee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Badger Lee's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 15 and Nov 19 and the ~249-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 116 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Badger Lee, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Badger Lee's boundary and the 452 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~249-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Badger Lee sits in the Arkansas Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Badger Lee's 452 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sequoyah County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sequoyah 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 Sequoyah County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Badger Lee's 452 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Badger Lee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 452 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Badger Lee-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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