Greer County, in Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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.
Grounded in USDA PHZM 2023 · Growable Ground suitability scoring · NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Greer County holds more than one microclimate.
Soils and elevations shift across Greer County, so your frost dates and drainage aren't the county average. 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 Greer County — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Greer County — the short answer
Greer County, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 234 days between hard freezes, across 409K acres.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F
- Days between freezes
- ~234
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F
- County area
- 409K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are county 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 Greer County's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Greer County's 234-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Heat and winter chill in Greer County
Across a year, Greer County accumulates about 4,923 growing degree days above 50°F, about 203 more than the middle Oklahoma county — ahead of 57 of Oklahoma’s 77 counties. Degree days are the heat a crop actually gets to work with — more of them is more room to ripen a long-season crop before the freeze closes the window.
Winter banks about 1,872 hours below 45°F, 47 fewer than the Oklahoma middle of 1,919. Chill is what tells a fruit tree its dormancy is over, and it is set by climate rather than by anything you can build.
Grounded in PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University — 1991–2020 monthly normals
Soil in Greer County
Across Greer County, the ground is predominantly Mollisols, where Knoco, Spur, and Hollister are the most extensive named soil series. The soil is generally well drained with a loam surface. Topsoil pH runs about 7.0–7.9, slightly alkaline. Rainfall drains through hydrologic group D soils.
Soil order
Mollisols
Drainage
Well drained
Prime farmland
42%
Hydric soils
0%
Soil still varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
How the ground varies across Greer County
The USDA soil survey maps 81% of Greer County as well drained — but another 16% drains differently: 9% moderately well drained, 5% somewhat excessively drained.
Knoco is the most extensive named soil at 7% of mapped acres, then Spur (7%) and Hollister (6%).
Which of them your own lot sits on is a parcel question, not a county one. Check your address for the survey at your boundary.
What this means for growing in Greer County
Each reading below is measured for Greer County itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Drainage
MeasuredThe dominant soils across Greer County are well drained, in hydrologic group D — ground that drains quickly.
The upside is soil you can work early in spring and roots that never drown; the cost is that fast-draining ground dries out fast and leaches nutrients away before plants can use them.
Work in compost and mulch to hold moisture and feed, and water more often in short doses than deep and rarely.
USDA NRCS SSURGO
Surface pH
MeasuredTopsoil across Greer County runs about pH 7.0–7.9, on the alkaline side.
Many vegetables cope, but acid-lovers like blueberries struggle, and iron and manganese lock up above about pH 7.5 — leaves yellow between the veins even in rich soil.
Elemental sulfur and generous organic matter lower pH slowly for the beds that need it; test first so you add only what the soil actually calls for.
USDA NRCS SSURGO
Season length
MeasuredGreer County runs about 234 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
MeasuredGreer County 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 Greer County is in
Greer County spans 2 EPA Level III ecoregions — Central Great Plains (77%) and Southwestern Tablelands (23%). Which one your land falls in changes what grows wild there and how the ground behaves, and a county-wide answer cannot tell you which.
What Grows in Greer County
We scored all 1,086 plants against Greer County's own USDA zone 7b and its own 234-day season between hard freezes, using the same matching engine that runs a full parcel report. These cleared both. Sun, soil pH and drainage vary lot by lot — those are the parcel questions below. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile.
Is it too late to plant in Greer County?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — 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 gets applied to farmland in Greer County
USGS estimates 68,186 lb of Glyphosate on Greer County farmland in 2019, its largest by weight, ahead of 2,4-d (42,537 lb) and Acetochlor (28,600 lb).
Farmland across the whole county, not any one lot. Check your address for the site-by-site record.
Safe to Grow Here?
What the federal record shows across Greer County — and how to grow with it.
We checked the federal record across Greer County — 86 documented sites across 4 of the 9 source types we track.
The most significant on record: 6 mining sites. Historic and active mines that may leach heavy metals like arsenic, lead, and cadmium.
The federal record across Greer County is a modest one — a typical footprint for a growing area. Nothing here calls for alarm; it's worth knowing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and each one on the map carries its type and location. If one turns out to be a near neighbor, a one-time soil test settles the question.
Sources: EPA, USGS — 1.8M documented sites tracked nationwide across 9 federal source types.
What's on the federal record near Greer County
Closest first, across Greer County. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HWY 9 TERMINALUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- 05N-23W-22 A 1Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- Okla Dept Of TransUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- 05N-23W-22 AADB 2Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- L E CaffeyUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- Kerr Mcgee #6398Underground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- Mangum Oil & Gas CorpUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- Planters Coop Station At MangumUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- Mangum Oil & Gas Co.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- O L . RoulainUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- Speedys #132Underground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- 05N-22W-13 AAA 1Nitrate · 4.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Greer County'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 Greer County.
Sources Checked
across Greer County
Severity Distribution
across Greer County
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Greer County, two things run higher than the national average across Greer County — Nitrate (46 sites) and Mining (6 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Greer County
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 Greer County average
Your land is one point inside Greer County
Everything above resolves to Greer County as a whole — one PHZM band and one county frost record, read across 409K 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 county 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 county average.
Your Lot vs the Greer County Average
Greer County Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Greer County
- ●One soil character for all of Greer County
- ●Frost dates read at Greer County's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Greer County's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your parcel in Greer County
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Greer County, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Greer County averages can't show:
We read public map data around Greer County — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Greer County average
How we know this about Greer County
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at county grain; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at this county’s own record where one resolves, and the labelled statewide window where none does; soils from the USDA NRCS SSURGO survey, area-weighted across the county’s own map units; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination and pesticide records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Where Greer County carries no record of its own, the figure is inherited and labelled — the resolution ledger below names each.
Common questions about Greer County
When does frost risk typically end in Greer County?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Greer County typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
How long is the growing season in Greer County?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Greer County sees about 234 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 28, about 199 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Greer County?
The federal record around Greer County shows 86 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (46), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.6 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.
Everything above is measured at Greer County's scale — its 7b band and its 234-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Greer County's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
Will It Grow Here?
Zone fit is the first question — each answer below reads Oklahoma's frost window, season length, and soil profile against the plant's real requirements.
What this page reads at Greer County’s own scale
8 of the readings below were taken at Greer County's own scale — its own ~234-day span between 28°F freezes, the 3 most extensive soil series mapped here and 86 documented sites inside its boundary; one is borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Greer County's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Greer County's own 28°F hard-freeze dates and its ~234-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- The soil order, drainage, surface pH, and the 3 most extensive named soil series mapped in Greer CountyUSDA NRCS SSURGO
- 86 documented contamination sites inside the county boundary, distance-sorted from its center — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.6 miles outFederal environmental registers
- Greer County's boundary and the 409,142 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~234-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The 2 ecoregions Greer County spans, Central Great Plains the largestUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Which agricultural compounds go onto Greer County farmland, and roughly how muchUSGS NAWQA EPest county estimates
Inherited from a wider read
- The growing challenges every Oklahoma grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Oklahoma
What this page can’t tell you
- How the season shifts across Greer County — the ~234 days above is one reading at its centre; the 12 towns below each carry their owntowns in this county →
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Greer County's 409,142 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which of those 86 documented sites actually reaches your soil — that needs your address, the wind, and the groundwater directionhow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — none of it survives being averaged over Greer Countyread your own land →