Lenapah, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Lenapah, 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 Lenapah 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 Lenapah — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lenapah — the short answer
Lenapah, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 264 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- 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
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 264 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 Lenapah's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lenapah's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lenapah
Each reading below is measured for Lenapah itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLenapah runs about 224 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
MeasuredLenapah 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 Lenapah is in
Lenapah sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lenapah's own centroid rather than borrowed from Nowata County.
What Grows in Lenapah
Every plant below cleared Lenapah's own zone 7a and its 224-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lenapah?
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 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (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 Lenapah
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lenapah. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Lenapah SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Whistle StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Farris Oil Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Nowata County, District #2Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- Carl FranklinUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- Runnin F IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- BSW NOWATAToxics Release Inventory · 9.0 mi
- Love's Travel Stops #636Underground Storage Tanks · 9.0 mi
- STARPIPE USA DBA SP FOUNDRY / SP FOUNDRYBrownfields · 9.9 mi
- STARPIPE USA DBA SP FOUNDRY / SP FOUNDRYToxics Release Inventory · 9.9 mi
- South Coffeyville SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.9 mi
- Franklin's Serv StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 10.0 mi
Measured from Lenapah'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 Lenapah.
Total Sites
12
within ~10 miles of Lenapah
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lenapah
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lenapah
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Lenapah
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 Lenapah average
Your land is one point inside Lenapah
Everything above resolves to Lenapah as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 264 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 Lenapah Average
Lenapah Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Lenapah
- ●One soil character for all of Lenapah
- ●Frost dates read at Lenapah's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lenapah's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lenapah
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lenapah, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Lenapah — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lenapah average
How we know this about Lenapah
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 Lenapah’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 Lenapah
When does frost risk typically end in Lenapah?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lenapah typically lands around Mar 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Lenapah?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lenapah 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 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lenapah?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lenapah sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 23, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lenapah?
The federal record around Lenapah is light — 12 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (9), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Lenapah?
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 Lenapah's scale — its 7a band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lenapah'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 Lenapah’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lenapah's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 264 acres it covers and 12 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lenapah's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lenapah's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 6 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 12 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lenapah, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lenapah's boundary and the 264 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~224-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lenapah's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lenapah's 264 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Nowata County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Nowata 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 Nowata County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lenapah's 264 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lenapah you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 264 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 Lenapah-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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