Dibble, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Dibble, 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 Dibble lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Dibble — the short answer
Dibble, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 244 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~244
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Dibble's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Dibble's 244-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Dibble
Each reading below is measured for Dibble itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDibble runs about 244 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
MeasuredDibble 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 Dibble is in
Dibble sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Dibble's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: McClain County is mostly Central Great Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Dibble
Every plant below cleared Dibble's own zone 7b and its 244-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Dibble?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 14 — 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 Dibble
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Dibble. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Kim And Kevin's StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Dibble Public SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- DJ's County StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Odot Right Of WayUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Hop & Sack #24Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- 1St American Bank Of PurcellUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- Crossroads Convenience Store IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- Ray's Starter & AlternatorUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- Country One-StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- Former Wooten's CornerUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- HARDAGE/CRINERSuperfund · 4.0 mi
- HARDAGE-CRINER SUPERFUND SITEBrownfields · 4.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Dibble'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 Dibble.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Dibble
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Dibble
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Dibble, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 44 sites within ~10 miles of Dibble. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Dibble
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 Dibble average
Your land is one point inside Dibble
Everything above resolves to Dibble as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Dibble Average
Dibble Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Dibble
- ●One soil character for all of Dibble
- ●Frost dates read at Dibble's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Dibble's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Dibble
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Dibble, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Dibble averages can't show:
We read public map data around Dibble — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Dibble average
How we know this about Dibble
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 Dibble’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 Dibble
When does frost risk typically end in Dibble?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Dibble typically lands around Mar 15, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Dibble?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Dibble typically arrives around Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 31, so the watching starts about Oct 15 — about 244 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Dibble?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Dibble sees about 244 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Oct 31, about 209 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Dibble?
The federal record around Dibble is a meaningful one — 60 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (44), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Dibble?
From about Oct 15 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Dibble's scale — its 7b band and its 244-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Dibble'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 Dibble’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Dibble's own scale — its own ~244-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,778 acres it covers and 60 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Dibble's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Dibble's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 15 and Nov 14 and the ~244-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 60 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Dibble, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Dibble's boundary and the 4,778 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~244-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Dibble sits in the Cross Timbers — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Dibble's 4,778 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom McClain County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom McClain 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 McClain County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Dibble's 4,778 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Dibble you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,778 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Dibble-wide figureread your own land →
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