White Water, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in White Water, 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 White Water lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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White Water — the short answer
White Water, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7a, about 226 days between hard freezes, across 769 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~226
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 769 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 White Water's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against White Water's 226-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in White Water
Each reading below is measured for White Water itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWhite Water runs about 226 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
MeasuredWhite Water 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 White Water is in
White Water sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at White Water's own centroid rather than borrowed from Delaware County.
What Grows in White Water
Every plant below cleared White Water's own zone 7a and its 226-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in White Water?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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 White Water
Closest first, within ~10 miles of White Water. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 24N-24E-24 DDA 01Nitrate · 3.7 mi
- 24N-24E-24 BBA 01Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- 24N-25E-19 DCD 01Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- Former Megan Coves MarinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- Pier Iii MarinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- 24N-25E-19 AAA 01Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- Honey Creek Landing MarinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- Abandoned StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- Grand PointeUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- LOWE'S OF GROVE, OK #1752Brownfields · 5.5 mi
- WALMART SUPERCENTER #90Brownfields · 5.5 mi
- Former Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from White Water'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 White Water.
Total Sites
134
within ~10 miles of White Water
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of White Water
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of White Water
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around White Water, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of White Water — CAFO (9 sites) and Nitrate (36 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside White Water
Everything above resolves to White Water as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 769 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 White Water Average
White Water Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across White Water
- ●One soil character for all of White Water
- ●Frost dates read at White Water's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not White Water's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in White Water
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in White Water, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around White Water — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the White Water average
How we know this about White Water
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 White Water’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 White Water
When does frost risk typically end in White Water?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in White Water typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in White Water?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in White Water typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 226 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in White Water?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, White Water sees about 226 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 24, about 191 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in White Water?
The federal record around White Water shows 134 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (65), the nearest Nitrate record about 3.7 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 White Water?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at White Water's scale — its 7a band and its 226-day season. Your yard writes its own version of White Water'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 White Water’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at White Water's own scale — its own ~226-day season between 28°F freezes, the 769 acres it covers and 134 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- White Water's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- White Water's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 7 and the ~226-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 134 documented contamination sites on the federal record near White Water, the closest Nitrate record about 3.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- White Water's boundary and the 769 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~226-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at White Water's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so White Water's 769 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Delaware County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Delaware 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 Delaware County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among White Water's 769 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of White Water you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 769 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 3.7 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 White Water-wide figureread your own land →
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