Moodys, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Moodys, 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 Moodys 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 Moodys — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Moodys — the short answer
Moodys, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 231 days between hard freezes, across 11K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- 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
- ~231
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 11K 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 Moodys's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Moodys's 231-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Moodys
Each reading below is measured for Moodys itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMoodys runs about 231 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
MeasuredMoodys 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 Moodys is in
Moodys sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Moodys's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cherokee County.
What Grows in Moodys
Every plant below cleared Moodys's own zone 7b and its 231-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Moodys?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (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. 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 Moodys
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Moodys. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- The Moody Store Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- Kaufman Korner StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Peyton's Place (Resort)Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Jo's Red BarnUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- Cherokee County Dist # 1Underground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- Arrowhead CompUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- Former Young Unregistered FacilityUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- The Log StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- well SP-1Nitrate · 5.3 mi
- TAHLEQUAH PWAPFAS · 6.3 mi
- Noel AdamsUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.5 mi
- 17N-22E-13 DCANitrate · 6.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Moodys'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 Moodys.
Total Sites
92
within ~10 miles of Moodys
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Moodys
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Moodys
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Moodys, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 68 sites within ~10 miles of Moodys. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Moodys
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 Moodys average
Your land is one point inside Moodys
Everything above resolves to Moodys as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 11K 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 Moodys Average
Moodys Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Moodys
- ●One soil character for all of Moodys
- ●Frost dates read at Moodys's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Moodys's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Moodys
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Moodys, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Moodys — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Moodys average
How we know this about Moodys
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 Moodys’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 Moodys
When does frost risk typically end in Moodys?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Moodys typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Moodys?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Moodys 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 231 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Moodys?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Moodys sees about 231 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Oct 27, about 196 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Moodys?
The federal record around Moodys shows 92 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (68), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Moodys?
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 Moodys's scale — its 7b band and its 231-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Moodys'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 Moodys’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Moodys's own scale — its own ~231-day season between 28°F freezes, the 11,186 acres it covers and 92 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Moodys's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Moodys's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 10 and the ~231-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 92 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Moodys, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Moodys's boundary and the 11,186 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~231-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Moodys's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Moodys's 11,186 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 Moodys's 11,186 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Moodys you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 11,186 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Moodys-wide figureread your own land →
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