Gate, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Gate, 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 Gate lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Gate — the short answer
Gate, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 161 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 161 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 7a is Gate's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Gate's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Gate
Each reading below is measured for Gate itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGate runs about 217 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
MeasuredGate sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Gate is in
Gate sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Gate's own centroid rather than borrowed from Beaver County.
What Grows in Gate
Every plant below cleared Gate's own zone 7a and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Gate?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — 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 Gate
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Gate. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Hamilton FarmsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- 05N-28E-27 ABC 1Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- Natural Gas Pipeline Co Of AmerUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- TRI-STATE FEEDERS, INC.CAFO · 3.8 mi
- 28N-26W-22 ABD 1Nitrate · 5.0 mi
- DCP MIDSTREAM LP/BEAVER CNTY 1 - NNGBrownfields · 5.4 mi
- Riverside BoosterUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.7 mi
- Top Hand, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 7.9 mi
- Knowles BoosterUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.0 mi
- 28N-25W-16 B 1Nitrate · 9.2 mi
- Laverne Field Compressor StaUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.3 mi
- 27N-25W-10 CBB 1Nitrate · 9.4 mi
Measured from Gate'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 Gate.
Total Sites
16
within ~10 miles of Gate
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Gate
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Gate
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Gate
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 Gate
Everything above resolves to Gate as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 161 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 Gate Average
Gate Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Gate
- ●One soil character for all of Gate
- ●Frost dates read at Gate's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Gate's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Gate
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Gate, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Gate — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Gate
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 Gate’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 Gate
When does frost risk typically end in Gate?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Gate typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Gate?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Gate typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Gate?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Gate sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 22, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Gate?
The federal record around Gate is light — 16 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (8), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Gate?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Gate's scale — its 7a band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Gate'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 Gate’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Gate's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 161 acres it covers and 16 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Gate's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Gate's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 5 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 16 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Gate, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Gate's boundary and the 161 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Gate's own centroid, the Southwestern TablelandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Gate's 161 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Beaver County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Beaver 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 Beaver County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Gate's 161 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Gate you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 161 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 Gate-wide figureread your own land →
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