Canadian Shores, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Canadian Shores, 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 Canadian Shores 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 Canadian Shores — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Canadian Shores — the short answer
Canadian Shores, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 254 days between hard freezes, across 675 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~254
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 675 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 Canadian Shores's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Canadian Shores's 254-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Canadian Shores
Each reading below is measured for Canadian Shores itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCanadian Shores runs about 254 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
MeasuredCanadian Shores 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 Canadian Shores is in
Canadian Shores sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Canadian Shores's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pittsburg County.
What Grows in Canadian Shores
Every plant below cleared Canadian Shores's own zone 7b and its 254-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Canadian Shores?
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 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — 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 Canadian Shores
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Canadian Shores. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Indianola SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Jon's Country CornerUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- Teel's General StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- Lakeside One StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- Leak's Garage & RanchUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- Closed BuildingUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- E-Z Mart #4434Underground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- Ez Mart #525Underground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- Crowder Public SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- Oklahoma Tourism & RecreationUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.0 mi
- Earlene's Bait & TackleUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
- Grub & More IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Canadian Shores'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 Canadian Shores.
Total Sites
20
within ~10 miles of Canadian Shores
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
17 underground storage tanks
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Canadian Shores
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •PFAS do not break down in groundwater. Irrigate from a tested source.
Check your specific parcel in Canadian Shores
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 Canadian Shores average
Your land is one point inside Canadian Shores
Everything above resolves to Canadian Shores as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 675 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 Canadian Shores Average
Canadian Shores Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Canadian Shores
- ●One soil character for all of Canadian Shores
- ●Frost dates read at Canadian Shores's scale: Mar 9 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Canadian Shores's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Canadian Shores
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Canadian Shores, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Canadian Shores averages can't show:
We read public map data around Canadian Shores — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Canadian Shores average
How we know this about Canadian Shores
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 Canadian Shores’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 Canadian Shores
When does frost risk typically end in Canadian Shores?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Canadian Shores typically lands around Mar 9, 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 Mar 30.
When is the first frost in Canadian Shores?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Canadian Shores typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 254 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Canadian Shores?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Canadian Shores sees about 254 frost-free days — roughly Mar 9 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 30 to Nov 4, about 219 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Canadian Shores?
The federal record around Canadian Shores is a meaningful one — 20 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (17), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 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 Canadian Shores?
From about Oct 19 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Canadian Shores's scale — its 7b band and its 254-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Canadian Shores'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 Canadian Shores’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Canadian Shores's own scale — its own ~254-day season between 28°F freezes, the 675 acres it covers and 20 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Canadian Shores's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Canadian Shores's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 9 and Nov 18 and the ~254-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 20 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Canadian Shores, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Canadian Shores's boundary and the 675 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~254-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Canadian Shores's own centroid, the Arkansas ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Canadian Shores's 675 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pittsburg County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Canadian Shores's 675 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Canadian Shores you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 675 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 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 Canadian Shores-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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