Hopeton, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Hopeton, 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 Hopeton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hopeton — the short answer
Hopeton, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 220 days between hard freezes, across 316 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~220
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 316 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 Hopeton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hopeton's 220-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hopeton
Each reading below is measured for Hopeton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHopeton runs about 220 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
MeasuredHopeton 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 Hopeton is in
Hopeton sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Hopeton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Woods County.
What Grows in Hopeton
Every plant below cleared Hopeton's own zone 7a and its 220-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hopeton?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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 Hopeton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hopeton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Farmers Cooperative Assoc.Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- HOPETONToxics Release Inventory · 1.3 mi
- 25N-13W-08 CAB 1Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- PANHANDLE EASTERN P/ALVA N HOPETON CMPSRBrownfields · 3.1 mi
- Alva Plant (Hopeton Location)Underground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- IOFINA RESOURCES, INC. (IO7)Brownfields · 3.4 mi
- Oakdale Booster SiteUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- Verlin WiebenerUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- Don WiebenerUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- 25N-14W-07 DAD 1Nitrate · 4.8 mi
- 26N-13W-15 CDD 1Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- ROSE VALLEY PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 5.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hopeton'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 Hopeton.
Total Sites
128
within ~10 miles of Hopeton
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hopeton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hopeton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hopeton, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Hopeton — CAFO (4 sites) and Nitrate (44 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Hopeton
Everything above resolves to Hopeton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 316 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 Hopeton Average
Hopeton Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Hopeton
- ●One soil character for all of Hopeton
- ●Frost dates read at Hopeton's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hopeton's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hopeton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hopeton, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hopeton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hopeton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hopeton average
How we know this about Hopeton
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 Hopeton’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 Hopeton
When does frost risk typically end in Hopeton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hopeton typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Hopeton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hopeton typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 220 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hopeton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hopeton sees about 220 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 23, about 185 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hopeton?
The federal record around Hopeton is a meaningful one — 128 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (65), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Hopeton?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hopeton's scale — its 7a band and its 220-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hopeton'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 Hopeton’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Hopeton's own scale — its own ~220-day season between 28°F freezes, the 316 acres it covers and 128 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hopeton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hopeton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 6 and the ~220-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 128 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hopeton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hopeton's boundary and the 316 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~220-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Hopeton's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hopeton's 316 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Woods County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Woods 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 Woods County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hopeton's 316 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hopeton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 316 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 Hopeton-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaHopeton sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.