Moffett, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Moffett, 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 Moffett 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 Moffett — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Moffett — the short answer
Moffett, Oklahoma: USDA zone 8a, about 257 days between hard freezes, across 627 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~257
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 627 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 8a is Moffett's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Moffett's 257-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Moffett
Each reading below is measured for Moffett itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMoffett runs about 257 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
MeasuredMoffett sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Moffett is in
Moffett sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Moffett's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Sequoyah County is mostly Boston Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Moffett
Every plant below cleared Moffett's own zone 8a and its 257-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Moffett?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 19 — 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 Moffett
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Moffett. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Highway 64 ExpressUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Wright Service & Station PhillipsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- ROBERT AUTO SALVAGEBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- Wright's 66Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- FORT SMITH RAILROAD CO LLCBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- BELLE POINT BEVERAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- BIG D ENTERPRISES, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- Well Owner Name: COSNER FARMSNitrate · 1.8 mi
- RMB PRODUCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- E R CARPENTER CO INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.8 mi
- US FORGECRAFT CORPORATIONBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- US FORGECRAFT CORPORATIONToxics Release Inventory · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Moffett'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 Moffett.
Total Sites
869
within ~10 miles of Moffett
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Moffett
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Moffett
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Moffett, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Moffett — Toxics Release Inventory (80 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (553 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Moffett
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 Moffett average
Your land is one point inside Moffett
Everything above resolves to Moffett as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 627 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 Moffett Average
Moffett Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Moffett
- ●One soil character for all of Moffett
- ●Frost dates read at Moffett's scale: Mar 7 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Moffett's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Moffett
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Moffett, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Moffett averages can't show:
We read public map data around Moffett — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Moffett average
How we know this about Moffett
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 Moffett’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 Moffett
When does frost risk typically end in Moffett?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Moffett typically lands around Mar 7, 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 Mar 28.
When is the first frost in Moffett?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Moffett typically arrives around Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 5, so the watching starts about Oct 20 — about 257 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Moffett?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Moffett sees about 257 frost-free days — roughly Mar 7 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 28 to Nov 5, about 222 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Moffett?
The federal record around Moffett is a meaningful one — 869 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (553), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Moffett?
From about Oct 20 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Moffett's scale — its 8a band and its 257-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Moffett'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 Moffett’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Moffett's own scale — its own ~257-day season between 28°F freezes, the 627 acres it covers and 869 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Moffett's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Moffett's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 7 and Nov 19 and the ~257-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 869 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Moffett, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Moffett's boundary and the 627 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~257-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Moffett sits in the Arkansas Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Moffett's 627 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sequoyah County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sequoyah 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 Sequoyah County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Moffett's 627 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Moffett you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 627 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 Moffett-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaMoffett sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.