Fort Coffee, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Fort Coffee, 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 Fort Coffee lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Fort Coffee — the short answer
Fort Coffee, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 248 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~248
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 Fort Coffee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fort Coffee's 248-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fort Coffee
Each reading below is measured for Fort Coffee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFort Coffee runs about 248 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
MeasuredFort Coffee 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 Fort Coffee is in
Fort Coffee sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Fort Coffee's own centroid rather than borrowed from Le Flore County.
What Grows in Fort Coffee
Every plant below cleared Fort Coffee's own zone 7b and its 248-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fort Coffee?
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 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Fort Coffee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fort Coffee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Wd Mayo L&D #14Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- Well Owner Name: CarlNitrate · 2.4 mi
- Rueben Rogers Pier 14Underground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- Floyd AllenUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- Eastside ConocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- US ARMY COE WD MAYO LOCK & DAM 14Brownfields · 3.8 mi
- Old Corral BarUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- Avery Feed StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- I L Ridenour FinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- E-Z Mart #4422Underground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- Leflore County Dist #1Underground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- Dean Ramer DxUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fort Coffee'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 Fort Coffee.
Total Sites
318
within ~10 miles of Fort Coffee
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fort Coffee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fort Coffee
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fort Coffee, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Fort Coffee — Toxics Release Inventory (27 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (225 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Fort Coffee
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 Fort Coffee average
Your land is one point inside Fort Coffee
Everything above resolves to Fort Coffee 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 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 Fort Coffee Average
Fort Coffee Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Fort Coffee
- ●One soil character for all of Fort Coffee
- ●Frost dates read at Fort Coffee's scale: Mar 12 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fort Coffee's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fort Coffee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fort Coffee, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fort Coffee averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fort Coffee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fort Coffee average
How we know this about Fort Coffee
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 Fort Coffee’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 Fort Coffee
When does frost risk typically end in Fort Coffee?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fort Coffee typically lands around Mar 12, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Fort Coffee?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fort Coffee typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 248 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fort Coffee?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fort Coffee sees about 248 frost-free days — roughly Mar 12 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 2 to Nov 1, about 213 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fort Coffee?
The federal record around Fort Coffee is a meaningful one — 318 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (225), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.2 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 Fort Coffee?
From about Oct 16 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fort Coffee's scale — its 7b band and its 248-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fort Coffee'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 Fort Coffee’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Fort Coffee's own scale — its own ~248-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,177 acres it covers and 318 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fort Coffee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fort Coffee's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 12 and Nov 15 and the ~248-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 318 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fort Coffee, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fort Coffee's boundary and the 4,177 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~248-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Fort Coffee's own centroid, the Arkansas ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Fort Coffee's 4,177 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Le Flore County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Le Flore 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 Le Flore County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fort Coffee's 4,177 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fort Coffee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,177 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.2 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 Fort Coffee-wide figureread your own land →