Hominy, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, 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 Hominy, 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 Hominy lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Hominy — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Hominy — the short answer
Hominy, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 235 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~235
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 1K 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 Hominy's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hominy's 235-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hominy
Each reading below is measured for Hominy itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHominy runs about 235 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
MeasuredHominy 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 Hominy is in
Hominy sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Hominy's own centroid rather than borrowed from Osage County.
What Grows in Hominy
Every plant below cleared Hominy's own zone 7a and its 235-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hominy?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Hominy
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hominy. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Hominy Texaco StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- City BarnUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Hortons Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- C & G OILFIELD EQUIPMENTBrownfields · 2000 ft
- Metzger Oil Tools, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Z MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Bill WallsUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Jack A GriffithUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Osage County Dist 3- HominyUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Det 1 Cbt Spt Co 1/179 InfUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Tyler's Service & GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Billy B HominyUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hominy'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 Hominy.
Total Sites
56
within ~10 miles of Hominy
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hominy
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hominy
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hominy, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 39 sites within ~10 miles of Hominy. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Hominy
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 Hominy average
Your land is one point inside Hominy
Everything above resolves to Hominy as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Hominy Average
Hominy Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Hominy
- ●One soil character for all of Hominy
- ●Frost dates read at Hominy's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hominy's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hominy
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hominy, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hominy averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hominy — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hominy average
How we know this about Hominy
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 Hominy’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 Hominy
When does frost risk typically end in Hominy?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hominy typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Hominy?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hominy typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 235 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hominy?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hominy sees about 235 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Oct 27, about 200 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hominy?
The federal record around Hominy shows 56 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (39), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles 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 Hominy?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hominy's scale — its 7a band and its 235-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hominy'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 Hominy’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Hominy's own scale — its own ~235-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,258 acres it covers and 56 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hominy's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hominy's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 10 and the ~235-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 56 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hominy, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hominy's boundary and the 1,258 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~235-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hominy's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hominy's 1,258 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Osage County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Osage 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 Osage County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hominy's 1,258 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hominy you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,258 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Hominy-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaHominy sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.