Eufaula, 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 Eufaula, 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 Eufaula lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Eufaula — the short answer
Eufaula, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 254 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~254
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 4K 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 Eufaula's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eufaula's 254-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eufaula
Each reading below is measured for Eufaula itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEufaula 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
MeasuredEufaula 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 Eufaula is in
Eufaula sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eufaula's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: McIntosh County is mostly Cross Timbers. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Eufaula
Every plant below cleared Eufaula'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 Eufaula?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 19 — 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 Eufaula
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eufaula. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- EUFAULA FORDBrownfields · 1100 ft
- Beaver's TotalUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- I Smell Bacon Inc. DBA Seasonal Snacks Gas StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Phillips 66 Co #002276Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Det 1, Co A 120 EngrUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #6057Brownfields · 1900 ft
- Paul D. GilleyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Ray Jones Oil Co.Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Eufaula CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- SR Food MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Haley's Oil CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Kwick Stop #69Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eufaula'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 Eufaula.
Total Sites
54
within ~10 miles of Eufaula
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eufaula
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eufaula
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eufaula, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Eufaula — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (45 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Eufaula
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Eufaula
Everything above resolves to Eufaula as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Eufaula Average
Eufaula Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Eufaula
- ●One soil character for all of Eufaula
- ●Frost dates read at Eufaula's scale: Mar 10 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eufaula's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eufaula
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eufaula, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eufaula averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eufaula — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eufaula average
How we know this about Eufaula
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 Eufaula’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 Eufaula
When does frost risk typically end in Eufaula?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eufaula typically lands around Mar 10, 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 31.
When is the first frost in Eufaula?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eufaula typically arrives around Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 5, so the watching starts about Oct 20 — about 254 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eufaula?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eufaula sees about 254 frost-free days — roughly Mar 10 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 31 to Nov 5, about 219 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eufaula?
The federal record around Eufaula is a meaningful one — 54 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (45), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Eufaula?
From about Oct 20 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eufaula's scale — its 7b band and its 254-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eufaula'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 Eufaula’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Eufaula's own scale — its own ~254-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,219 acres it covers and 54 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eufaula's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Eufaula's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 10 and Nov 19 and the ~254-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 54 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eufaula, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eufaula's boundary and the 4,219 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~254-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Eufaula sits in the Arkansas Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eufaula's 4,219 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom McIntosh County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom McIntosh 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 McIntosh County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eufaula's 4,219 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eufaula you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,219 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Eufaula-wide figureread your own land →
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