Eagletown, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Eagletown, 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 Eagletown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Eagletown — the short answer
Eagletown, Oklahoma: USDA zone 8a, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 16
- 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
- ~243
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 8a is Eagletown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eagletown's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eagletown
Each reading below is measured for Eagletown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEagletown runs about 243 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
MeasuredEagletown sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Eagletown is in
Eagletown sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eagletown's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: McCurtain County is mostly Ouachita Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Eagletown
Every plant below cleared Eagletown's own zone 8a and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eagletown?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 16 (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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Eagletown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eagletown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Eagletown SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Eagletown HardwareUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Lori's Corner Store & Deli LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Eagle Cash GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Clark O. StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Weyerhaeuser - Don Dale - AreaUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- WEYERHAEUSER COMPANYToxics Release Inventory · 3.2 mi
- Former C & A GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- JIMMY TUCKER TRUCKING INC.Brownfields · 3.4 mi
- Thomas Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- BELL LUMBER AND POLE COMPANYBrownfields · 4.0 mi
- BELL LUMBER AND POLE COMPANYToxics Release Inventory · 4.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eagletown'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 Eagletown.
Total Sites
61
within ~10 miles of Eagletown
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eagletown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eagletown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eagletown, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Eagletown — Underground Storage Tanks (46 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (4 sites). 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.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Eagletown
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 Eagletown average
Your land is one point inside Eagletown
Everything above resolves to Eagletown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Eagletown Average
Eagletown Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Eagletown
- ●One soil character for all of Eagletown
- ●Frost dates read at Eagletown's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eagletown's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eagletown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eagletown, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eagletown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eagletown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eagletown average
How we know this about Eagletown
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 Eagletown’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 Eagletown
When does frost risk typically end in Eagletown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eagletown typically lands around Mar 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Eagletown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eagletown 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 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eagletown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eagletown sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Oct 31, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eagletown?
The federal record around Eagletown shows 61 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (46), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Eagletown?
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 Eagletown's scale — its 8a band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eagletown'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 Eagletown’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Eagletown's own scale — its own ~243-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,029 acres it covers and 61 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eagletown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Eagletown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 14 and the ~243-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 61 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eagletown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eagletown's boundary and the 3,029 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Eagletown sits in the South Central Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eagletown's 3,029 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom McCurtain County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom McCurtain 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 McCurtain County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eagletown's 3,029 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eagletown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,029 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Eagletown-wide figureread your own land →