North Enid, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in North Enid, 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 North Enid lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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North Enid — the short answer
North Enid, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 230 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~230
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 North Enid's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against North Enid's 230-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in North Enid
Each reading below is measured for North Enid itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNorth Enid runs about 230 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
MeasuredNorth Enid 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 North Enid is in
North Enid sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at North Enid's own centroid rather than borrowed from Garfield County.
What Grows in North Enid
Every plant below cleared North Enid's own zone 7a and its 230-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in North Enid?
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 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — 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 North Enid
Closest first, within ~10 miles of North Enid. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- C-Stop # 2Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Wedge WirelineUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Phillips Oil Operating CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- MIDWAY CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- Becker RentalsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Munn SupplyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- K StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- ADM GRAIN-ELEVATOR ZToxics Release Inventory · 1.4 mi
- BAKER HUGHES QUINN PUMPS A GE COMPANYBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- ROBERTS BODY SHOPBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- USARC GRADY L. ROBBINSBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- MERLIN'S BODY SHOPBrownfields · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from North Enid'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 North Enid.
Total Sites
363
within ~10 miles of North Enid
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of North Enid
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of North Enid
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around North Enid, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 26 sites within ~10 miles of North Enid. 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.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in North Enid
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 North Enid average
Your land is one point inside North Enid
Everything above resolves to North Enid as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 North Enid Average
North Enid Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across North Enid
- ●One soil character for all of North Enid
- ●Frost dates read at North Enid's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not North Enid's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in North Enid
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in North Enid, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that North Enid averages can't show:
We read public map data around North Enid — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the North Enid average
How we know this about North Enid
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 North Enid’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 North Enid
When does frost risk typically end in North Enid?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in North Enid typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in North Enid?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in North Enid typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 230 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in North Enid?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, North Enid sees about 230 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 28, about 195 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in North Enid?
The federal record around North Enid is a meaningful one — 363 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (219), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 North Enid?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at North Enid's scale — its 7a band and its 230-day season. Your yard writes its own version of North Enid'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 North Enid’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at North Enid's own scale — its own ~230-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,499 acres it covers and 363 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- North Enid's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- North Enid's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 11 and the ~230-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 363 documented contamination sites on the federal record near North Enid, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- North Enid's boundary and the 1,499 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~230-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at North Enid's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so North Enid's 1,499 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Garfield County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Garfield 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 Garfield County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among North Enid's 1,499 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of North Enid you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,499 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 North Enid-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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