Bridge Creek, 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.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Bridge Creek, 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 Bridge Creek lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bridge Creek — the short answer
Bridge Creek, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 246 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~246
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Bridge Creek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bridge Creek's 246-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bridge Creek
Each reading below is measured for Bridge Creek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBridge Creek runs about 246 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
MeasuredBridge Creek 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 Bridge Creek is in
Bridge Creek sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Bridge Creek's own centroid rather than borrowed from Grady County.
What Grows in Bridge Creek
Every plant below cleared Bridge Creek's own zone 7b and its 246-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bridge Creek?
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 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — 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 Bridge Creek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bridge Creek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Robby's Convenience StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- Bell'sUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- Bridgecreek ConvenienceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- 09N-05W-12 CC 1Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- SANTANA BROS. PAINTING LLCBrownfields · 3.8 mi
- MIDCO DENTALBrownfields · 4.0 mi
- 08N-05W-09 DC 1Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- Charles H BallardUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- Hop & SackUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- 10N-05W-31 DDD 1Nitrate · 4.2 mi
- Scott's Mini Stop LlcUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- TUTTLEPFAS · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bridge Creek'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 Bridge Creek.
Total Sites
132
within ~10 miles of Bridge Creek
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bridge Creek
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bridge Creek
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bridge Creek, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 3 sites within ~10 miles of Bridge Creek. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Bridge Creek
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 Bridge Creek
Everything above resolves to Bridge Creek as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Bridge Creek Average
Bridge Creek Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Bridge Creek
- ●One soil character for all of Bridge Creek
- ●Frost dates read at Bridge Creek's scale: Mar 14 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bridge Creek's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bridge Creek
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bridge Creek, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bridge Creek averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bridge Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bridge Creek average
How we know this about Bridge Creek
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 Bridge Creek’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 Bridge Creek
When does frost risk typically end in Bridge Creek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bridge Creek typically lands around Mar 14, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Bridge Creek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bridge Creek typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 246 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bridge Creek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bridge Creek sees about 246 frost-free days — roughly Mar 14 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 4 to Nov 1, about 211 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bridge Creek?
The federal record around Bridge Creek is a meaningful one — 132 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (70), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 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 Bridge Creek?
From about Oct 16 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bridge Creek's scale — its 7b band and its 246-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bridge Creek'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 Bridge Creek’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Bridge Creek's own scale — its own ~246-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,007 acres it covers and 132 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bridge Creek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bridge Creek's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 14 and Nov 15 and the ~246-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 132 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bridge Creek, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bridge Creek's boundary and the 1,007 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~246-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bridge Creek's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bridge Creek's 1,007 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Grady County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Grady 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 Grady County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bridge Creek's 1,007 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bridge Creek you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,007 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 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 Bridge Creek-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaBridge Creek sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.
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