Antoine, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Antoine, 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 Antoine lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Antoine — the short answer
Antoine, Arkansas: USDA zone 8a, about 259 days between hard freezes, across 324 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~259
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 324 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 8a is Antoine's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Antoine's 259-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Antoine
Each reading below is measured for Antoine itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAntoine runs about 259 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
MeasuredAntoine sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Antoine is in
Antoine sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Antoine's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Pike County is mostly Ouachita Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Antoine
Every plant below cleared Antoine's own zone 8a and its 259-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Antoine?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Antoine
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Antoine. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PRICE GROCERY & STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- 08S22W18CCC1Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- 08S23W35DCA1Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- BOSWELL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- C. C. COXUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- ANTAINE'S SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- 08S22W05CCC1Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- DELIGHT CHEVRON STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- DELIGHT PUBLIC SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- WATTS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- ALLGOOD SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- E-Z MART DELIGHT EXCESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Antoine'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 Antoine.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Antoine
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Antoine
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Antoine, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 108 sites within ~10 miles of Antoine. 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 Antoine
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 Antoine
Everything above resolves to Antoine as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 324 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 Antoine Average
Antoine Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Antoine
- ●One soil character for all of Antoine
- ●Frost dates read at Antoine's scale: Mar 5 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Antoine's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Antoine, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Antoine — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Antoine average
How we know this about Antoine
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 Antoine’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 Antoine
When does frost risk typically end in Antoine?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Antoine typically lands around Mar 5, 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 Mar 26.
When is the first frost in Antoine?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Antoine typically arrives around Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 5, so the watching starts about Oct 20 — about 259 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Antoine?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Antoine sees about 259 frost-free days — roughly Mar 5 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 26 to Nov 5, about 224 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Antoine?
The federal record around Antoine is a meaningful one — 131 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (108), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Antoine?
From about Oct 20 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Antoine's scale — its 8a band and its 259-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Antoine'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 Antoine’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Antoine's own scale — its own ~259-day season between 28°F freezes, the 324 acres it covers and 131 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Antoine's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Antoine's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 5 and Nov 19 and the ~259-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 131 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Antoine, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Antoine's boundary and the 324 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~259-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Antoine sits in the South Central Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Antoine's 324 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pike County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pike County
- The growing challenges every Arkansas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Arkansas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Pike County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Antoine's 324 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Antoine you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 324 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Antoine-wide figureread your own land →
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