Muskogee, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Muskogee, 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 Muskogee lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Muskogee — the short answer
Muskogee, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 241 days between hard freezes, across 27K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~241
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 27K 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 Muskogee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Muskogee's 241-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Muskogee
Each reading below is measured for Muskogee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMuskogee runs about 241 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
MeasuredMuskogee 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 Muskogee is in
Muskogee sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Muskogee's own centroid rather than borrowed from Muskogee County.
What Grows in Muskogee
Every plant below cleared Muskogee's own zone 7b and its 241-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Muskogee?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 14 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Muskogee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Muskogee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Super Quick #2Underground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- Fire Department Station #4Underground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- Kerr Mcgee #6455Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Ash Oil Co IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR # 1151Brownfields · 1200 ft
- Pacer #122Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- ORS NASCOBrownfields · 1700 ft
- Eastside CitgoUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Sheets Oil CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Full ServeUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- FASHION CLEANERSBrownfields · 2500 ft
- UNION METAL CORPToxics Release Inventory · 2600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Muskogee'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 Muskogee.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Muskogee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Muskogee
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Muskogee, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Muskogee — Toxics Release Inventory (35 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (213 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Muskogee
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 Muskogee average
Your land is one point inside Muskogee
Everything above resolves to Muskogee as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 27K 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 city 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 Muskogee Average
Muskogee Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Muskogee
- ●One soil character for all of Muskogee
- ●Frost dates read at Muskogee's scale: Mar 18 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Muskogee's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Muskogee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Muskogee, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Muskogee averages can't show:
We read public map data around Muskogee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Muskogee average
How we know this about Muskogee
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Muskogee’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Muskogee
When does frost risk typically end in Muskogee?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Muskogee typically lands around Mar 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Muskogee?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Muskogee typically arrives around Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 31, so the watching starts about Oct 15 — about 241 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Muskogee?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Muskogee sees about 241 frost-free days — roughly Mar 18 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 8 to Oct 31, about 206 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Muskogee?
The federal record around Muskogee is a meaningful one — 320 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (213), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Muskogee?
From about Oct 15 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Muskogee's scale — its 7b band and its 241-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Muskogee'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 Muskogee’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Muskogee's own scale — its own ~241-day season between 28°F freezes, the 27,494 acres it covers and 320 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Muskogee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Muskogee's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 18 and Nov 14 and the ~241-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 320 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Muskogee, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Muskogee's boundary and the 27,494 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~241-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Muskogee's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Muskogee's 27,494 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Muskogee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Muskogee 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 Muskogee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Muskogee's 27,494 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Muskogee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 27,494 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Muskogee-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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