Lowrey, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lowrey, 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 Lowrey 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 Lowrey — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lowrey — the short answer
Lowrey, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 232 days between hard freezes, across 10K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- 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
- ~232
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 10K 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 Lowrey's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lowrey's 232-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lowrey
Each reading below is measured for Lowrey itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLowrey runs about 232 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
MeasuredLowrey 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 Lowrey is in
Lowrey sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lowrey's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cherokee County.
What Grows in Lowrey
Every plant below cleared Lowrey's own zone 7a and its 232-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lowrey?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (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 Lowrey
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lowrey. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Arrowhead CompUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- COBB-VANTRESS, INC.CAFO · 3.8 mi
- well SP-4Nitrate · 4.2 mi
- Noel AdamsUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- The Moody Store Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- Kaufman Korner StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- Peyton's Place (Resort)Underground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- well SP-5Nitrate · 6.1 mi
- Oaks Mission SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- Oaks 1 StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
- HUDSON FOODS INCToxics Release Inventory · 6.5 mi
- Jerry ComerfordUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lowrey'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 Lowrey.
Total Sites
32
within ~10 miles of Lowrey
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lowrey
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lowrey
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lowrey, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 21 sites within ~10 miles of Lowrey. 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 Lowrey
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Lowrey
Everything above resolves to Lowrey as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 10K 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 Lowrey Average
Lowrey Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Lowrey
- ●One soil character for all of Lowrey
- ●Frost dates read at Lowrey's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lowrey's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lowrey
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lowrey, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Lowrey — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lowrey average
How we know this about Lowrey
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 Lowrey’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 Lowrey
When does frost risk typically end in Lowrey?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lowrey typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Lowrey?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lowrey 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 232 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lowrey?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lowrey sees about 232 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Oct 27, about 197 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lowrey?
The federal record around Lowrey is light — 32 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (21), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.5 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 Lowrey?
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 Lowrey's scale — its 7a band and its 232-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lowrey'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 Lowrey’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lowrey's own scale — its own ~232-day season between 28°F freezes, the 10,116 acres it covers and 32 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lowrey's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lowrey's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 10 and the ~232-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 32 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lowrey, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lowrey's boundary and the 10,116 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~232-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lowrey's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lowrey's 10,116 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cherokee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cherokee 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 Cherokee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lowrey's 10,116 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lowrey you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 10,116 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 3.5 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 Lowrey-wide figureread your own land →
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