What Grows in Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

USDA Zones 7b · 3K acres

Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.

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.

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Webbers Falls — the short answer

Webbers Falls, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 239 days between hard freezes, across 3K 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 10
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
Days between freezes
~239
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
Town area
3K 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

7b7b
3a (Cold)13b (Hot)

Zone 7b is Webbers Falls's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Webbers Falls's 239-day season, see what your own ground reads.

Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.

What this means for growing in Webbers Falls

Each reading below is measured for Webbers Falls itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.

Season length

Measured

Webbers Falls runs about 239 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

Measured

Webbers Falls 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 Webbers Falls is in

Webbers Falls sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Webbers Falls's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Muskogee County is mostly Central Irregular Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.

What that means for soil

What Grows in Webbers Falls

Every plant below cleared Webbers Falls's own zone 7b and its 239-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.

cabbage, photograph
Growing cabbage in OklahomaZones 2–11Webbers Falls's 7b — 5 zones of cold margin.
prickly pear, photograph
Oklahoma prickly pear guideZones 5–10Webbers Falls's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.
California poppy, photograph
California poppy in OklahomaZones 6–10Webbers Falls's 7b — 1 zone of cold margin.
collard greens, photograph
Collard greens: Oklahoma growing notesZones 2–11Webbers Falls's 7b — 5 zones of cold margin.
fig, photograph
Growing fig in OklahomaZones 6–10Webbers Falls's 7b — 1 zone of cold margin.
lavender, photograph
Oklahoma lavender guideZones 5–8Webbers Falls's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.
garlic, photograph
Garlic in OklahomaZones 2–10Webbers Falls's 7b — 5 zones of cold margin.
grape, photograph
Grape: Oklahoma growing notesZones 6–9Webbers Falls's 7b — 1 zone of cold margin.
Turkish rocket, photograph
Growing turkish rocket in OklahomaWebbers Falls's 239 days clear the ~90 it needs.
kale, photograph
Oklahoma kale guideZones 2–11Webbers Falls's 7b — 5 zones of cold margin.
hazelnut, photograph
Hazelnut in OklahomaZones 4–9Webbers Falls's 7b — 3 zones of cold margin.
lentil, photograph
Lentil: Oklahoma growing notesZones 2–11Webbers Falls's 239 days clear the ~70 it needs.
pawpaw, photograph
Growing pawpaw in OklahomaZones 5–9Webbers Falls's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.
okra, photograph
Oklahoma okra guideZones 2–12Webbers Falls's 239 days clear the ~50 it needs.
potato, photograph
Potato in OklahomaZones 2–11Webbers Falls's 7b — 5 zones of cold margin.
iris, photograph
Iris: Oklahoma growing notesZones 3–10Webbers Falls's 7b — 4 zones of cold margin.
sunflower, photograph
Growing sunflower in OklahomaZones 2–11Webbers Falls's 239 days clear the ~70 it needs.
Apache plume, photograph
Oklahoma apache plume guideZones 5–11Webbers Falls's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.
hops, photograph
Hops in OklahomaZones 3–8Webbers Falls's 7b — 4 zones of cold margin.
hosta, photograph
Hosta: Oklahoma growing notesZones 3–8Webbers Falls's 7b — 4 zones of cold margin.
French marigold, photograph
Growing french marigold in OklahomaWebbers Falls's 239 days clear the ~50 it needs.
holly, photograph
Oklahoma holly guideZones 5–11Webbers Falls's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.
Virginia creeper, photograph
Virginia creeper in OklahomaZones 3–9Webbers Falls's 7b — 4 zones of cold margin.
tulip, photograph
Tulip: Oklahoma growing notesZones 6–8Webbers Falls's 7b — 1 zone of cold margin.
Douglas fir, photograph
Growing douglas fir in OklahomaZones 4–10Webbers Falls's 7b — 3 zones of cold margin.
Ethiopian mustard, photograph
Oklahoma ethiopian mustard guideZones 4–10Webbers Falls's 7b — 3 zones of cold margin.
Kentucky bluegrass, botanical illustration
Kentucky bluegrass in OklahomaZones 2–7Webbers Falls's 7b — 5 zones of cold margin.
redbud, photograph
Redbud: Oklahoma growing notesZones 5–11Webbers Falls's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.
Japanese millet, photograph
Growing japanese millet in OklahomaZones 5–10Webbers Falls's 239 days clear the ~45 it needs.
ajuga, photograph
Oklahoma ajuga guideZones 5–11Webbers Falls's 7b — 2 zones of cold margin.

Is it too late to plant in Webbers Falls?

Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. 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 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.

What's on the federal record near Webbers Falls

Closest first, within ~10 miles of Webbers Falls. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.

  1. Stop 2 ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
  2. Hit & RunUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
  3. US ARMY COE WEBBERS FALLS POWERHOUSEBrownfields · 1.8 mi
  4. SRS INCBrownfields · 1.9 mi
  5. Webbers Falls Public SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
  6. Webbers Falls Fina Fuel StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
  7. Love's Travel Stop #255Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
  8. Mr Tip's Bait ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
  9. Webbers Falls L&D #16Underground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
  10. U.S. Army Corps Of EngineersUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
  11. Carl EdwardsUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
  12. Webbers Falls L & D 16Underground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi

6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map

Measured from Webbers Falls'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 Webbers Falls.

Total Sites

52

within ~10 miles of Webbers Falls

Risk Level

Moderate

Highest-severity

1 Toxics Release Inventory facility

Severity Distribution

within ~10 miles of Webbers Falls

High1Moderate18Low33

Highest-Severity Sites

Porum Pwa
PFAS Sampling · PFAS Detected
01S-12E-17 B 1
Nitrate Monitoring · Well
01S-12E-17 B 1
Nitrate Monitoring · Well
B & J Oil CO
Underground Storage Tanks · Open UST(S)
Cowboy Corner-Phillips 66
Underground Storage Tanks · Open UST(S)

A note from Gnorman

What an experienced grower watches for around here

In and around Webbers Falls, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 40 sites within ~10 miles of Webbers Falls. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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.

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Your land is one point inside Webbers Falls

Everything above resolves to Webbers Falls as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Webbers Falls Average

Webbers Falls Average

  • USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Webbers Falls
  • One soil character for all of Webbers Falls
  • Frost dates read at Webbers Falls's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 10

YOUR Parcel

  • Your exact zone, not Webbers Falls's 7b
  • Your SSURGO soil type & pH
  • Your sun exposure, cast in 3D

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We read public map data around Webbers Falls — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.

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How we know this about Webbers Falls

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 Webbers Falls’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 Webbers Falls

When does frost risk typically end in Webbers Falls?

The last hard freeze (28°F) in Webbers Falls 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 Webbers Falls?

The first hard freeze (28°F) in Webbers Falls typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 239 days after the spring freeze cleared.

How long is the growing season in Webbers Falls?

Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Webbers Falls sees about 239 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Oct 27, about 204 days.

Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Webbers Falls?

The federal record around Webbers Falls shows 52 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (40), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Webbers Falls?

From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.

Everything above is measured at Webbers Falls's scale — its 7b band and its 239-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Webbers Falls'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 Webbers Falls’s own scale

6 of the readings below were taken at Webbers Falls's own scale — its own ~239-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,682 acres it covers and 52 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.

Measured here

  • Webbers Falls's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
  • Webbers Falls's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 10 and the ~239-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
  • 52 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Webbers Falls, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
  • Webbers Falls's boundary and the 2,682 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
  • Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~239-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
  • Webbers Falls sits in the Arkansas Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions

Inherited from a wider read

  • Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Webbers Falls's 2,682 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Muskogee County
  • Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Muskogee 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 Muskogee County

What this page can’t tell you

  • The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Webbers Falls's 2,682 acreswhy one lot differs from the next
  • Which side of Webbers Falls you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,682 acresreading your own microclimate
  • How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 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 Webbers Falls-wide figureread your own land
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