Savanna, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, 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 Savanna, 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 Savanna lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Savanna — the short answer
Savanna, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 242 days between hard freezes, across 932 acres of town.
- 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 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~242
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 932 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 Savanna's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Savanna's 242-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Savanna
Each reading below is measured for Savanna itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSavanna runs about 242 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
MeasuredSavanna 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 Savanna is in
Savanna sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Savanna's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pittsburg County.
What Grows in Savanna
Every plant below cleared Savanna's own zone 7b and its 242-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Savanna?
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 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 13 — 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 Savanna
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Savanna. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Savanna Kings Travel Plaza IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Lee's Truck StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Savanna SuperetteUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Savanna Public SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Bob's MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Denton Texaco StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- PITTSBURG CO. RWD #11 (KIOWA)PFAS · 1.3 mi
- BIG MAC TRANSPORT INCBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- Okla Turnpike AuthorityUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- MCALESTER BATCH PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 3.1 mi
- Petco (Petroleum Equip Co.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- E-Z Mart #4435Underground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Savanna'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 Savanna.
Total Sites
169
within ~10 miles of Savanna
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Savanna
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Savanna
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Savanna, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 127 sites within ~10 miles of Savanna. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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.
Check your specific parcel in Savanna
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 Savanna average
Your land is one point inside Savanna
Everything above resolves to Savanna as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 932 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 Savanna Average
Savanna Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Savanna
- ●One soil character for all of Savanna
- ●Frost dates read at Savanna's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Savanna's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Savanna
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Savanna, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Savanna averages can't show:
We read public map data around Savanna — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Savanna average
How we know this about Savanna
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 Savanna’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 Savanna
When does frost risk typically end in Savanna?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Savanna 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 Savanna?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Savanna typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 242 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Savanna?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Savanna sees about 242 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Oct 30, about 207 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Savanna?
The federal record around Savanna is a meaningful one — 169 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (127), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Savanna?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Savanna's scale — its 7b band and its 242-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Savanna'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 Savanna’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Savanna's own scale — its own ~242-day season between 28°F freezes, the 932 acres it covers and 169 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Savanna's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Savanna's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 13 and the ~242-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 169 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Savanna, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Savanna's boundary and the 932 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~242-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Savanna's own centroid, the Arkansas ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Savanna's 932 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pittsburg County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Savanna's 932 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Savanna you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 932 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 Savanna-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaSavanna sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.