Pryor Creek, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Pryor Creek, 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 Pryor Creek lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pryor Creek — the short answer
Pryor Creek, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 225 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~225
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 6K 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 Pryor Creek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pryor Creek's 225-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pryor Creek
Each reading below is measured for Pryor Creek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPryor Creek runs about 225 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
MeasuredPryor Creek 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 Pryor Creek is in
Pryor Creek sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Pryor Creek's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mayes County.
What Grows in Pryor Creek
Every plant below cleared Pryor Creek's own zone 7a and its 225-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pryor Creek?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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 Pryor Creek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pryor Creek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Co A (-) 120Th EngrUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- Pryor Public SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Best Way Marketing CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- City Of Pryor Fire Station #1Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Okie DokieUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- UnknownUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- R.E. SibleyUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Palmer Kerr-MegeeUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Jiffy Jim'sUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- PRYORITY MOTORSBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- O'REILLY AUTO PART STORE 160Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- Gas-N-GoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pryor Creek'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 Pryor Creek.
Total Sites
169
within ~10 miles of Pryor Creek
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pryor Creek
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pryor Creek
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pryor Creek, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pryor Creek — Superfund (6 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (26 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Pryor Creek
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 Pryor Creek
Everything above resolves to Pryor Creek as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K 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 Pryor Creek Average
Pryor Creek Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Pryor Creek
- ●One soil character for all of Pryor Creek
- ●Frost dates read at Pryor Creek's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pryor Creek's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pryor Creek
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pryor Creek, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pryor Creek averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pryor Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pryor Creek average
How we know this about Pryor Creek
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 Pryor Creek’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 Pryor Creek
When does frost risk typically end in Pryor Creek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pryor Creek typically lands around Mar 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Pryor Creek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pryor Creek typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 225 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pryor Creek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pryor Creek sees about 225 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 24, about 190 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pryor Creek?
The federal record around Pryor Creek is a meaningful one — 169 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (99), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Pryor Creek?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pryor Creek's scale — its 7a band and its 225-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pryor Creek'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 Pryor Creek’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Pryor Creek's own scale — its own ~225-day season between 28°F freezes, the 6,477 acres it covers and 169 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pryor Creek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pryor Creek's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 7 and the ~225-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 169 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pryor Creek, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pryor Creek's boundary and the 6,477 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~225-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pryor Creek's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pryor Creek's 6,477 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mayes County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mayes 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 Mayes County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pryor Creek's 6,477 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pryor Creek you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,477 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Pryor Creek-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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