The Village, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in The Village, 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 The Village 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 The Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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The Village — the short answer
The Village, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 246 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~246
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 2K 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 The Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against The Village's 246-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in The Village
Each reading below is measured for The Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredThe Village runs about 246 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
MeasuredThe Village 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 The Village is in
The Village sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at The Village's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Oklahoma County is mostly Cross Timbers. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in The Village
Every plant below cleared The Village's own zone 7b and its 246-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in The Village?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 16 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near The Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of The Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Avis LubeUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- City HallUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- CASADY SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- WALGREENS #4784Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- Former Discount MufflerUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Save A Stop #25Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Jackie Cooper Linc. Merc. IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- WALMART NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET #5286Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- Circle K #2703951Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 7 Eleven #21Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Casady SquareUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Casady SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from The Village'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 The Village.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of The Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of The Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around The Village, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 1,612 sites within ~10 miles of The Village. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 The Village
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 Village average
Your land is one point inside The Village
Everything above resolves to The Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 The Village Average
The Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across The Village
- ●One soil character for all of The Village
- ●Frost dates read at The Village's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not The Village's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in The Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in The Village, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around The Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Village average
How we know this about The Village
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 The Village’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 The Village
When does frost risk typically end in The Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in The Village typically lands around Mar 15, 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 5.
When is the first frost in The Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in The Village typically arrives around Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 2, so the watching starts about Oct 17 — about 246 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in The Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, The Village sees about 246 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Nov 2, about 211 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in The Village?
The federal record around The Village runs heavier than most — 2,529 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,612), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in The Village?
From about Oct 17 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at The Village's scale — its 7b band and its 246-day season. Your yard writes its own version of The Village'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 The Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at The Village's own scale — its own ~246-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,631 acres it covers and 2,529 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- The Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- The Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 15 and Nov 16 and the ~246-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,529 documented contamination sites on the federal record near The Village, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- The Village's boundary and the 1,631 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~246-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The Village sits in the Central Great Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so The Village's 1,631 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Oklahoma County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among The Village's 1,631 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of The Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,631 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 The Village-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaThe Village sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.
Nearby growing guides