Deer Creek, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Deer Creek, 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 Deer Creek 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 Deer Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Deer Creek — the short answer
Deer Creek, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 227 days between hard freezes, across 91 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~227
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 91 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 7a is Deer Creek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Deer Creek's 227-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Deer Creek
Each reading below is measured for Deer Creek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDeer Creek runs about 227 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
MeasuredDeer Creek sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Deer Creek is in
Deer Creek sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Deer Creek's own centroid rather than borrowed from Grant County.
What Grows in Deer Creek
Every plant below cleared Deer Creek's own zone 7a and its 227-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Deer Creek?
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 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — 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 Deer Creek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Deer Creek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 27N-03W-21 A 1Nitrate · 650 ft
- 27N-03W-21 A 4Nitrate · 650 ft
- 27N-03W-21 A 2Nitrate · 650 ft
- 27N-03W-21 ADA 1Nitrate · 850 ft
- Farmers grain Co (Former Clyde Coop)Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Deer Creek BranchUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Russell WebsterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Well Owner Name: GlennNitrate · 0.9 mi
- Joe BrownUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- The Wil-Mc Oil Corp.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- FEUQYAY ELEVATORBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- Jesse HaynesUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Deer Creek'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 Deer Creek.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Deer Creek
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Deer Creek
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Deer Creek, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Deer Creek. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Deer Creek
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 Deer Creek average
Your land is one point inside Deer Creek
Everything above resolves to Deer Creek as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 91 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 Deer Creek Average
Deer Creek Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Deer Creek
- ●One soil character for all of Deer Creek
- ●Frost dates read at Deer Creek's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Deer Creek's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Deer Creek
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Deer Creek, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Deer Creek averages can't show:
We read public map data around Deer Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Deer Creek average
How we know this about Deer Creek
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 Deer Creek’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 Deer Creek
When does frost risk typically end in Deer Creek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Deer Creek typically lands around Mar 28, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Deer Creek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Deer Creek typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 227 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Deer Creek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Deer Creek sees about 227 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Oct 27, about 192 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Deer Creek?
The federal record around Deer Creek is light — 35 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (18), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.1 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 Deer Creek?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Deer Creek's scale — its 7a band and its 227-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Deer Creek'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 Deer Creek’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Deer Creek's own scale — its own ~227-day season between 28°F freezes, the 91 acres it covers and 35 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Deer Creek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Deer Creek's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 10 and the ~227-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 35 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Deer Creek, the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Deer Creek's boundary and the 91 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~227-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Deer Creek's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Deer Creek's 91 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Grant County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Grant 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 Grant County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Deer Creek's 91 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Deer Creek you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 91 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.1 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 Deer Creek-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaDeer Creek sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.