Oaks, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Oaks, 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 Oaks 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 Oaks — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Oaks — the short answer
Oaks, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 548 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- 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
- ~233
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 548 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 Oaks's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Oaks's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Oaks
Each reading below is measured for Oaks itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredOaks runs about 233 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
MeasuredOaks 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 Oaks is in
Oaks sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Oaks's own centroid rather than borrowed from Delaware County.
What Grows in Oaks
Every plant below cleared Oaks's own zone 7a and its 233-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Oaks?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Oaks
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Oaks. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Oaks 1 StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Oaks Mission SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Spring Place Country StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Fred Smith GroUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- Geraldine Duncan Dba Duncan GroUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- Kaiser Car Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- OK-DE-31Nitrate · 3.8 mi
- HUDSON FOODS INCToxics Release Inventory · 3.9 mi
- Kansas Public SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- Cookson Hills Christian SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- Dennis BowmanUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- Circle NUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Oaks'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 Oaks.
Total Sites
32
within ~10 miles of Oaks
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Oaks
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Oaks
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Oaks
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Oaks
Everything above resolves to Oaks as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 548 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 Oaks Average
Oaks Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Oaks
- ●One soil character for all of Oaks
- ●Frost dates read at Oaks's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Oaks's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Oaks
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Oaks, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Oaks — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Oaks average
How we know this about Oaks
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 Oaks’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 Oaks
When does frost risk typically end in Oaks?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Oaks typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Oaks?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Oaks 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 233 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Oaks?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Oaks sees about 233 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 27, about 198 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Oaks?
The federal record around Oaks is light — 32 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (19), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Oaks?
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 Oaks's scale — its 7a band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Oaks'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 Oaks’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Oaks's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 548 acres it covers and 32 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Oaks's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Oaks's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 10 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 32 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Oaks, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Oaks's boundary and the 548 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~233-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Oaks's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Oaks's 548 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 Oaks's 548 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Oaks you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 548 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Oaks-wide figureread your own land →
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