New Eucha, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Eucha, 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 New Eucha lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Eucha — the short answer
New Eucha, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 229 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- 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 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~229
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 New Eucha's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Eucha's 229-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Eucha
Each reading below is measured for New Eucha itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Eucha runs about 229 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
MeasuredNew Eucha 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 New Eucha is in
New Eucha sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Eucha's own centroid rather than borrowed from Delaware County.
What Grows in New Eucha
Every plant below cleared New Eucha's own zone 7a and its 229-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Eucha?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. 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 8 — 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 New Eucha
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Eucha. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Harvey CharbonneauUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- 22N-23E-11 BBB 1Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- JACOBS MANUFACTURING CORP.Brownfields · 1.9 mi
- Delaware County Maintenance HdgUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- The Y StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Tomcat Corner #2Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- Okie MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Casey's General Store #3701Underground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- Lake Eucha Maintenance ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- Sam Hider Community ClinicUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- Jay's ConocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Crank Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Eucha'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 New Eucha.
Total Sites
33
within ~10 miles of New Eucha
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Eucha
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Eucha
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Eucha, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 23 sites within ~10 miles of New Eucha. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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.
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Your land is one point inside New Eucha
Everything above resolves to New Eucha as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 New Eucha Average
New Eucha Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across New Eucha
- ●One soil character for all of New Eucha
- ●Frost dates read at New Eucha's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Eucha's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Eucha, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Eucha averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Eucha — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Eucha average
How we know this about New Eucha
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 New Eucha’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 New Eucha
When does frost risk typically end in New Eucha?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Eucha 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 New Eucha?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Eucha typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 229 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Eucha?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Eucha sees about 229 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Oct 25, about 194 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Eucha?
The federal record around New Eucha is light — 33 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (23), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 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 New Eucha?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Eucha's scale — its 7a band and its 229-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Eucha'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 New Eucha’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at New Eucha's own scale — its own ~229-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,970 acres it covers and 33 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Eucha's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Eucha's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 8 and the ~229-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 33 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Eucha, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Eucha's boundary and the 4,970 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~229-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Eucha's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Eucha's 4,970 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Delaware County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Delaware 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 Delaware County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Eucha's 4,970 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Eucha you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,970 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.7 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 New Eucha-wide figureread your own land →
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