Thackerville, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Thackerville, 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 Thackerville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Thackerville — the short answer
Thackerville, Oklahoma: USDA zone 8a, about 265 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~265
- 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 8a is Thackerville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Thackerville's 265-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Thackerville
Each reading below is measured for Thackerville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredThackerville runs about 265 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredThackerville sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Thackerville is in
Thackerville sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Thackerville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Love County.
What Grows in Thackerville
Every plant below cleared Thackerville's own zone 8a and its 265-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Thackerville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Thackerville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Thackerville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- D & F Thackerville ApcoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Quick StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Thackerville School Isd-4Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CHICKASAW WINSTARPFAS · 1.0 mi
- Well Owner Name: AnthonyNitrate · 1.3 mi
- Exit One Fast StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- At&T MariettaUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- Rains FarmUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- DUFFYS BURGERS & BAITUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- NORTH STAR MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- HILLTOP CONOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- HITCHIN POSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Thackerville'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 Thackerville.
Total Sites
51
within ~10 miles of Thackerville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
9 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Thackerville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Thackerville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Thackerville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Thackerville — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (9 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Thackerville
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 Thackerville
Everything above resolves to Thackerville 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 Thackerville Average
Thackerville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Thackerville
- ●One soil character for all of Thackerville
- ●Frost dates read at Thackerville's scale: Mar 4 to Nov 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Thackerville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Thackerville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Thackerville, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Thackerville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Thackerville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Thackerville average
How we know this about Thackerville
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 Thackerville’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 Thackerville
When does frost risk typically end in Thackerville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Thackerville typically lands around Mar 4, 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 Mar 25.
When is the first frost in Thackerville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Thackerville typically arrives around Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 10, so the watching starts about Oct 25 — about 265 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Thackerville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Thackerville sees about 265 frost-free days — roughly Mar 4 through Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 25 to Nov 10, about 230 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Thackerville?
The federal record around Thackerville is a meaningful one — 51 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (28), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Thackerville?
From about Oct 25 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Thackerville's scale — its 8a band and its 265-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Thackerville'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 Thackerville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Thackerville's own scale — its own ~265-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,434 acres it covers and 51 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Thackerville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Thackerville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 4 and Nov 24 and the ~265-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 51 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Thackerville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Thackerville's boundary and the 1,434 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~265-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Thackerville's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Thackerville's 1,434 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Love County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Love 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 Love County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Thackerville's 1,434 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Thackerville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,434 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Thackerville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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