IXL, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 IXL, 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 IXL lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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IXL — the short answer
IXL, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 238 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 19
- 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
- ~238
- 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 IXL's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against IXL's 238-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in IXL
Each reading below is measured for IXL itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredIXL runs about 238 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
MeasuredIXL 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 IXL is in
IXL sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at IXL's own centroid rather than borrowed from Okfuskee County.
What Grows in IXL
Every plant below cleared IXL's own zone 7b and its 238-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in IXL?
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 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 19 (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. 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 IXL
Closest first, within ~10 miles of IXL. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Mason StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- Castle GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- Deaton's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- Drumright Area OfficeUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- Nabob YardUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- More 4 LessUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- Atlas Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- John Lilley Correctional Center (JLCC)Underground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- Mccormick Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- The Welty StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.6 mi
- Rogers GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- Bob Heiskill Oil Field Serv.Underground Storage Tanks · 7.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from IXL'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 IXL.
Total Sites
60
within ~10 miles of IXL
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of IXL
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of IXL
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around IXL, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 58 sites within ~10 miles of IXL. 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 IXL
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 IXL average
Your land is one point inside IXL
Everything above resolves to IXL 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 IXL Average
IXL Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across IXL
- ●One soil character for all of IXL
- ●Frost dates read at IXL's scale: Mar 19 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not IXL's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in IXL
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in IXL, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that IXL averages can't show:
We read public map data around IXL — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the IXL average
How we know this about IXL
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 IXL’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 IXL
When does frost risk typically end in IXL?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in IXL typically lands around Mar 19, 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 9.
When is the first frost in IXL?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in IXL 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 238 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in IXL?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, IXL sees about 238 frost-free days — roughly Mar 19 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 9 to Oct 29, about 203 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in IXL?
The federal record around IXL shows 60 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (58), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.2 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 IXL?
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 IXL's scale — its 7b band and its 238-day season. Your yard writes its own version of IXL'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 IXL’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at IXL's own scale — its own ~238-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,521 acres it covers and 60 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- IXL's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- IXL's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 19 and Nov 12 and the ~238-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 60 documented contamination sites on the federal record near IXL, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- IXL's boundary and the 2,521 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~238-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at IXL's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so IXL's 2,521 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Okfuskee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Okfuskee 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 Okfuskee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among IXL's 2,521 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of IXL you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,521 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.2 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 IXL-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaIXL sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.