Laverne, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Laverne, 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 Laverne 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 Laverne — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Laverne — the short answer
Laverne, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 216 days between hard freezes, across 486 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 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~216
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 486 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 Laverne's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Laverne's 216-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Laverne
Each reading below is measured for Laverne itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLaverne runs about 216 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
MeasuredLaverne 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 Laverne is in
Laverne sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Laverne's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Harper County is mostly Central Great Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Laverne
Every plant below cleared Laverne's own zone 7a and its 216-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Laverne?
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 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 4 — 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 Laverne
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Laverne. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Perez ConstructionUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Triple S's Mini StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Sooner Stop & ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- LARRYS BODY SHOPBrownfields · 1700 ft
- Former Ruby's Quick StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Timmons Oil CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Gtsw Laverne Central OfficeUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Harper County Dist 2Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Fast Fill Kwik StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Dowler Oil Co.Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Former Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Formerly C.I.G.Bldg On Cty LnUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Laverne'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 Laverne.
Total Sites
75
within ~10 miles of Laverne
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Laverne
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Laverne
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Laverne, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 52 sites within ~10 miles of Laverne. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Laverne
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 Laverne average
Your land is one point inside Laverne
Everything above resolves to Laverne as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 486 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 Laverne Average
Laverne Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Laverne
- ●One soil character for all of Laverne
- ●Frost dates read at Laverne's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Laverne's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Laverne
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Laverne, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Laverne averages can't show:
We read public map data around Laverne — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Laverne average
How we know this about Laverne
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 Laverne’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 Laverne
When does frost risk typically end in Laverne?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Laverne 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 Laverne?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Laverne typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 216 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Laverne?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Laverne sees about 216 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 21, about 181 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Laverne?
The federal record around Laverne shows 75 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (52), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Laverne?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Laverne's scale — its 7a band and its 216-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Laverne'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 Laverne’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Laverne's own scale — its own ~216-day season between 28°F freezes, the 486 acres it covers and 75 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Laverne's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Laverne's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 4 and the ~216-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 75 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Laverne, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Laverne's boundary and the 486 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~216-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Laverne sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Laverne's 486 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Harper County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Harper 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 Harper County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Laverne's 486 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Laverne you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 486 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 Laverne-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaLaverne sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.