Crescent, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Crescent, 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 Crescent lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Crescent — the short answer
Crescent, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 235 days between hard freezes, across 713 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~235
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 713 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 Crescent's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Crescent's 235-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Crescent
Each reading below is measured for Crescent itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCrescent runs about 235 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
MeasuredCrescent 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 Crescent is in
Crescent sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Crescent's own centroid rather than borrowed from Logan County.
What Grows in Crescent
Every plant below cleared Crescent's own zone 7b and its 235-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Crescent?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (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. 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 Crescent
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Crescent. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Parker G. WalridgeUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- Henry KeeleUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- Lee's Easy StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- Hedrick Brothers Oil CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- Crescent Cooperative Ass'NUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- City Of CrescentUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- Seven Day StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Coastal Chemical Company, LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Crescent Public SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- FORMER COASTAL CHEMICAL CO LLC CRESCENTBrownfields · 1500 ft
- COASTAL CHEMICAL CO., LLC (CRESCENT FACILITY)Brownfields · 1500 ft
- COASTAL CHEMICAL CO., LLCToxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Crescent'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 Crescent.
Total Sites
103
within ~10 miles of Crescent
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Crescent
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Crescent
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Crescent, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 50 sites within ~10 miles of Crescent. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Crescent
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 Crescent average
Your land is one point inside Crescent
Everything above resolves to Crescent as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 713 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 city 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 Crescent Average
Crescent Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Crescent
- ●One soil character for all of Crescent
- ●Frost dates read at Crescent's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Crescent's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Crescent
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Crescent, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Crescent averages can't show:
We read public map data around Crescent — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Crescent average
How we know this about Crescent
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Crescent’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Crescent
When does frost risk typically end in Crescent?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Crescent typically lands around Mar 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Crescent?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Crescent typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 235 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Crescent?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Crescent sees about 235 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Oct 28, about 200 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Crescent?
The federal record around Crescent shows 103 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (50), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Crescent?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Crescent's scale — its 7b band and its 235-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Crescent'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 Crescent’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Crescent's own scale — its own ~235-day season between 28°F freezes, the 713 acres it covers and 103 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Crescent's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Crescent's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 11 and the ~235-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 103 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Crescent, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Crescent's boundary and the 713 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~235-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Crescent's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Crescent's 713 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Logan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Logan 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 Logan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Crescent's 713 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Crescent you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 713 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Crescent-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaCrescent sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.
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