Cherry Tree, 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.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Cherry Tree, 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 Cherry Tree lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Cherry Tree — the short answer
Cherry Tree, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 229 days between hard freezes, across 7K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~229
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 7K 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 Cherry Tree's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cherry Tree's 229-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cherry Tree
Each reading below is measured for Cherry Tree itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCherry Tree runs about 229 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
MeasuredCherry Tree 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 Cherry Tree is in
Cherry Tree sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Cherry Tree's own centroid rather than borrowed from Adair County.
What Grows in Cherry Tree
Every plant below cleared Cherry Tree's own zone 7b and its 229-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cherry Tree?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — 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 Cherry Tree
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cherry Tree. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Harvey Johnson'sUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Dorothy NorrisUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- WINIGER POULTRY AND DAIRY FARMCAFO · 3.8 mi
- Big B Food & Deli #1Underground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- IK C-StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- Former C-MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- Bert's 66Underground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- City Of StilwellUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- Sunshine Store #17Underground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- SFC SCHWAN'S GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN, INCToxics Release Inventory · 4.6 mi
- SFC SCHWAN'S GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN, INCBrownfields · 4.6 mi
- Stilwell Foods Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cherry Tree'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 Cherry Tree.
Total Sites
57
within ~10 miles of Cherry Tree
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cherry Tree
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cherry Tree
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cherry Tree, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Cherry Tree — CAFO (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (49 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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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 Cherry Tree
Everything above resolves to Cherry Tree as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 7K 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 Cherry Tree Average
Cherry Tree Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Cherry Tree
- ●One soil character for all of Cherry Tree
- ●Frost dates read at Cherry Tree's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cherry Tree's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cherry Tree
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cherry Tree, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Cherry Tree — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Cherry Tree
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 Cherry Tree’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 Cherry Tree
When does frost risk typically end in Cherry Tree?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cherry Tree typically lands around Mar 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Cherry Tree?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cherry Tree typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 229 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cherry Tree?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cherry Tree sees about 229 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 26, about 194 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cherry Tree?
The federal record around Cherry Tree shows 57 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (49), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Cherry Tree?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cherry Tree's scale — its 7b band and its 229-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cherry Tree'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 Cherry Tree’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Cherry Tree's own scale — its own ~229-day season between 28°F freezes, the 7,364 acres it covers and 57 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cherry Tree's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cherry Tree's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 9 and the ~229-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 57 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cherry Tree, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cherry Tree's boundary and the 7,364 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~229-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Cherry Tree's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cherry Tree's 7,364 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Adair County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Adair 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 Adair County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cherry Tree's 7,364 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cherry Tree you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 7,364 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Cherry Tree-wide figureread your own land →
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