Wagoner, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Wagoner, 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 Wagoner lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Wagoner — the short answer
Wagoner, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 240 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 18
- 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
- ~240
- 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 7b is Wagoner's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wagoner's 240-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wagoner
Each reading below is measured for Wagoner itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWagoner runs about 240 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
MeasuredWagoner 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 Wagoner is in
Wagoner sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Wagoner's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wagoner County.
What Grows in Wagoner
Every plant below cleared Wagoner's own zone 7b and its 240-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wagoner?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 18 (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. 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 Wagoner
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wagoner. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Maintenance LotUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- US ARMY COE CHOTEAU LOCK & DAM 17Brownfields · 2200 ft
- Lake Region Electric CooperativeUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Maverick Mini Mart #10Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- TRACYS BODY SHOPBrownfields · 2500 ft
- George JonesUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Mallett Funeral HomeUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- O'REILLY AUTO PARTS STORE 159Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- Co B (-) 120 EngrUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- UNION PACIFIC RRBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- Williams StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Wagoner Liquor/Former D&L Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wagoner'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 Wagoner.
Total Sites
97
within ~10 miles of Wagoner
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wagoner
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wagoner
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wagoner, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Wagoner — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (72 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Wagoner
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 Wagoner average
Your land is one point inside Wagoner
Everything above resolves to Wagoner 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 Wagoner Average
Wagoner Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Wagoner
- ●One soil character for all of Wagoner
- ●Frost dates read at Wagoner's scale: Mar 18 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wagoner's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Wagoner
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wagoner, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wagoner averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wagoner — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wagoner average
How we know this about Wagoner
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 Wagoner’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 Wagoner
When does frost risk typically end in Wagoner?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wagoner typically lands around Mar 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Wagoner?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wagoner 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 240 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wagoner?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wagoner sees about 240 frost-free days — roughly Mar 18 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 8 to Oct 30, about 205 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wagoner?
The federal record around Wagoner shows 97 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (72), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Wagoner?
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 Wagoner's scale — its 7b band and its 240-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wagoner'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 Wagoner’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Wagoner's own scale — its own ~240-day season between 28°F freezes, the 6,408 acres it covers and 97 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wagoner's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wagoner's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 18 and Nov 13 and the ~240-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 97 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wagoner, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wagoner's boundary and the 6,408 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~240-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Wagoner's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wagoner's 6,408 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wagoner County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wagoner 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 Wagoner County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wagoner's 6,408 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wagoner you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,408 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 Wagoner-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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