Vici, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Vici, 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 Vici 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 Vici — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Vici — the short answer
Vici, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 218 days between hard freezes, across 278 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~218
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 278 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 Vici's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Vici's 218-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Vici
Each reading below is measured for Vici itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredVici runs about 218 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
MeasuredVici 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 Vici is in
Vici sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Vici's own centroid rather than borrowed from Dewey County.
What Grows in Vici
Every plant below cleared Vici's own zone 7a and its 218-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Vici?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — 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 Vici
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Vici. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Vici Quick Stop LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Everett HutchinsUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- B-Mart Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- Former Jim's Full ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- Farmers Cooperative Assn Of ViciUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Wayne ColemanUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Mcneill Construction, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Dewey County District #3Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- 20N-20W-36 BBB 1Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- IOCHEM CORPORATIONToxics Release Inventory · 3.2 mi
- 20N-21W-12 DAD 1Nitrate · 6.9 mi
- 19N-19W-36 BCC 1Nitrate · 8.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Vici'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 Vici.
Total Sites
29
within ~10 miles of Vici
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Vici
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Vici
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Vici, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 10 sites within ~10 miles of Vici. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Vici
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 Vici
Everything above resolves to Vici as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 278 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 Vici Average
Vici Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Vici
- ●One soil character for all of Vici
- ●Frost dates read at Vici's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Vici's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Vici
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Vici, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Vici averages can't show:
We read public map data around Vici — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Vici average
How we know this about Vici
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 Vici’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 Vici
When does frost risk typically end in Vici?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Vici typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Vici?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Vici typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 218 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Vici?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Vici sees about 218 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 22, about 183 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Vici?
The federal record around Vici is light — 29 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (17), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Vici?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Vici's scale — its 7a band and its 218-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Vici'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 Vici’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Vici's own scale — its own ~218-day season between 28°F freezes, the 278 acres it covers and 29 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Vici's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Vici's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 5 and the ~218-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 29 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Vici, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Vici's boundary and the 278 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~218-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Vici's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Vici's 278 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dewey County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dewey 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 Dewey County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Vici's 278 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Vici you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 278 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Vici-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaVici sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.