Mustang, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Mustang, 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 Mustang 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 Mustang — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Mustang — the short answer
Mustang, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 244 days between hard freezes, across 8K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~244
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 8K 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 Mustang's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mustang's 244-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mustang
Each reading below is measured for Mustang itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMustang runs about 244 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
MeasuredMustang 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 Mustang is in
Mustang sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Mustang's own centroid rather than borrowed from Canadian County.
What Grows in Mustang
Every plant below cleared Mustang's own zone 7b and its 244-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mustang?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — 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 Mustang
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mustang. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Max GasUnderground Storage Tanks · 25 ft
- WALGREENS #7222Brownfields · 350 ft
- TRACTOR SUPPLY # 1160Brownfields · 450 ft
- GERBER COLLISION & GLASS - MUSTANGBrownfields · 1000 ft
- Esther W. FudgeUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- BIG O TIRESBrownfields · 1200 ft
- City Of MustangUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Gas N GoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Southwestern Bell Telephone CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Bronco StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 11N-05W-33 ADD 1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- Mustang Public Schools Trans.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mustang'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 Mustang.
Total Sites
1,016
within ~10 miles of Mustang
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mustang
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mustang
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Mustang
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 Mustang average
Your land is one point inside Mustang
Everything above resolves to Mustang as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 8K 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 Mustang Average
Mustang Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Mustang
- ●One soil character for all of Mustang
- ●Frost dates read at Mustang's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mustang's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mustang
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mustang, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Mustang — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mustang average
How we know this about Mustang
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 Mustang’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 Mustang
When does frost risk typically end in Mustang?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mustang typically lands around Mar 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Mustang?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mustang typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 244 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mustang?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mustang sees about 244 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Nov 1, about 209 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mustang?
The federal record around Mustang is a meaningful one — 1,016 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (596), 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 Mustang?
From about Oct 16 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mustang's scale — its 7b band and its 244-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mustang'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 Mustang’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Mustang's own scale — its own ~244-day season between 28°F freezes, the 7,670 acres it covers and 1,016 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mustang's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mustang's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 15 and the ~244-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,016 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mustang, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mustang's boundary and the 7,670 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~244-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mustang's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mustang's 7,670 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Canadian County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Canadian 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 Canadian County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mustang's 7,670 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mustang you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 7,670 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 Mustang-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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