Welty, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Welty, 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 Welty 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 Welty — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Welty — the short answer
Welty, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 235 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- 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
- ~235
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 Welty's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Welty's 235-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Welty
Each reading below is measured for Welty itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWelty runs about 235 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
MeasuredWelty 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 Welty is in
Welty sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Welty's own centroid rather than borrowed from Okfuskee County.
What Grows in Welty
Every plant below cleared Welty's own zone 7b and its 235-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Welty?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (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. 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 Welty
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Welty. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Rogers GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- The Welty StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Deaton's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- Drumright Area OfficeUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- Mason StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- PADEN GAS PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 8.9 mi
- Enogex, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 9.2 mi
- Haydonville StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.4 mi
- ONEOK - OGS - DEPEW STORAGEBrownfields · 9.9 mi
Measured from Welty'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 Welty.
Total Sites
9
within ~10 miles of Welty
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Welty
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Welty
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Welty
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 Welty average
Your land is one point inside Welty
Everything above resolves to Welty 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 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 Welty Average
Welty Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Welty
- ●One soil character for all of Welty
- ●Frost dates read at Welty's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Welty's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Welty
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Welty, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Welty — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Welty average
How we know this about Welty
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 Welty’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 Welty
When does frost risk typically end in Welty?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Welty typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Welty?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Welty 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 235 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Welty?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Welty sees about 235 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Oct 27, about 200 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Welty?
The federal record around Welty is light — 9 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (7), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles 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 Welty?
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 Welty's scale — its 7b band and its 235-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Welty'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 Welty’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Welty's own scale — its own ~235-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,517 acres it covers and 9 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Welty's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Welty's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 10 and the ~235-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 9 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Welty, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Welty's boundary and the 1,517 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~235-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Welty's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Welty's 1,517 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Okfuskee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Okfuskee 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 Okfuskee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Welty's 1,517 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Welty you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,517 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Welty-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaWelty sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.