Gans, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Gans, 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 Gans lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Gans — the short answer
Gans, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 250 days between hard freezes, across 165 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 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~250
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 165 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 Gans's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Gans's 250-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Gans
Each reading below is measured for Gans itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGans runs about 250 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
MeasuredGans 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 Gans is in
Gans sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Gans's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Sequoyah County is mostly Boston Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Gans
Every plant below cleared Gans's own zone 7b and its 250-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Gans?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 17 — 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 Gans
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Gans. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Gan's General StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- At&T Gan R.R.S.Underground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- Gans Public SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Gan's Git-N-GoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- CITY OF SALLISAW SANITARY LANDFILLToxics Release Inventory · 3.1 mi
- Central Public SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- Muldrow Public SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- Bhp Pc Glenn #1Underground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- Shary MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- Pier 7Underground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- Abandoned TankUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- Matthews TexacoUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Gans'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 Gans.
Total Sites
122
within ~10 miles of Gans
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Gans
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Gans
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Gans, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 91 sites within ~10 miles of Gans. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Gans
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 Gans
Everything above resolves to Gans as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 165 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 Gans Average
Gans Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Gans
- ●One soil character for all of Gans
- ●Frost dates read at Gans's scale: Mar 12 to Nov 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Gans's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Gans
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Gans, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Gans averages can't show:
We read public map data around Gans — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Gans average
How we know this about Gans
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 Gans’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 Gans
When does frost risk typically end in Gans?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Gans 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 Gans?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Gans typically arrives around Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 3, so the watching starts about Oct 18 — about 250 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Gans?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Gans sees about 250 frost-free days — roughly Mar 12 through Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 2 to Nov 3, about 215 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Gans?
The federal record around Gans shows 122 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (91), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Gans?
From about Oct 18 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Gans's scale — its 7b band and its 250-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Gans'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 Gans’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Gans's own scale — its own ~250-day season between 28°F freezes, the 165 acres it covers and 122 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Gans's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Gans's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 12 and Nov 17 and the ~250-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 122 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Gans, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Gans's boundary and the 165 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~250-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Gans 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 Gans's 165 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sequoyah County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sequoyah 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 Sequoyah County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Gans's 165 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Gans you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 165 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Gans-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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