Crowder, 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.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Crowder, 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 Crowder lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Crowder — the short answer
Crowder, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 254 days between hard freezes, across 1K 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
- 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 Crowder's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Crowder's 254-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Crowder
Each reading below is measured for Crowder itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCrowder 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
MeasuredCrowder 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 Crowder is in
Crowder sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Crowder's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pittsburg County.
What Grows in Crowder
Every plant below cleared Crowder'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 Crowder?
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 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. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Crowder
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Crowder. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Closed BuildingUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Leak's Garage & RanchUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Lakeside One StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Crowder Public SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Oklahoma Tourism & RecreationUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Ez Mart #525Underground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- E-Z Mart #4434Underground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- Teel's General StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- Earlene's Bait & TackleUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- Jon's Country CornerUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- Indianola SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- BJ SERVICES CO USA MCALESTERBrownfields · 6.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Crowder'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 Crowder.
Total Sites
24
within ~10 miles of Crowder
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Crowder
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Crowder
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Crowder
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 Crowder average
Your land is one point inside Crowder
Everything above resolves to Crowder 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 Crowder Average
Crowder Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Crowder
- ●One soil character for all of Crowder
- ●Frost dates read at Crowder's scale: Mar 9 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Crowder's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Crowder
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Crowder, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Crowder averages can't show:
We read public map data around Crowder — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Crowder average
How we know this about Crowder
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 Crowder’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 Crowder
When does frost risk typically end in Crowder?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Crowder 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 Crowder?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Crowder 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 Crowder?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Crowder 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 Crowder?
The federal record around Crowder is light — 24 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (18), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Crowder?
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 Crowder's scale — its 7b band and its 254-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Crowder'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 Crowder’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Crowder's own scale — its own ~254-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,313 acres it covers and 24 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Crowder's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Crowder's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 9 and Nov 18 and the ~254-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 24 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Crowder, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Crowder's boundary and the 1,313 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 Crowder's own centroid, the Arkansas ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Crowder's 1,313 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 Crowder's 1,313 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Crowder you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,313 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 Crowder-wide figureread your own land →
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