Hinton, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Hinton, 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 Hinton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hinton — the short answer
Hinton, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 236 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~236
- 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 7b is Hinton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hinton's 236-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hinton
Each reading below is measured for Hinton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHinton runs about 236 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
MeasuredHinton 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 Hinton is in
Hinton sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Hinton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Caddo County.
What Grows in Hinton
Every plant below cleared Hinton's own zone 7b and its 236-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hinton?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Hinton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hinton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ENTZ OILFIELD CHEMCIALS INCBrownfields · 1800 ft
- Ada Rig CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- ECO-TECH SUB DIV OF EOC INCBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- ASAP General Store #303Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Bob J CasstevensUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Craig SmithUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- HINTON ASAP GENERAL STORE #305Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- Hinton Public SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- 12N-11W-26 CCC 1Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR #6580Brownfields · 1.4 mi
- England Ford, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- 12N-11W-34 BC 1Nitrate · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hinton'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 Hinton.
Total Sites
123
within ~10 miles of Hinton
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hinton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hinton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hinton, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 78 sites within ~10 miles of Hinton. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Hinton
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 Hinton
Everything above resolves to Hinton 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 Hinton Average
Hinton Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Hinton
- ●One soil character for all of Hinton
- ●Frost dates read at Hinton's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hinton's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hinton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hinton, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hinton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hinton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hinton average
How we know this about Hinton
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 Hinton’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 Hinton
When does frost risk typically end in Hinton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hinton typically lands around Mar 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Hinton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hinton typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 236 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hinton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hinton sees about 236 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Oct 29, about 201 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hinton?
The federal record around Hinton is a meaningful one — 123 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (78), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Hinton?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hinton's scale — its 7b band and its 236-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hinton'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 Hinton’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Hinton's own scale — its own ~236-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,034 acres it covers and 123 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hinton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hinton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 12 and the ~236-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 123 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hinton, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hinton's boundary and the 3,034 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~236-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hinton's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hinton's 3,034 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Caddo County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Caddo 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 Caddo County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hinton's 3,034 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hinton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,034 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Hinton-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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