Beedeville, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Beedeville, 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 Beedeville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Beedeville — the short answer
Beedeville, Arkansas: USDA zone 8a, about 265 days between hard freezes, across 729 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 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~265
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 729 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 Beedeville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beedeville's 265-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beedeville
Each reading below is measured for Beedeville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBeedeville runs about 265 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBeedeville 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 Beedeville is in
Beedeville sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Beedeville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jackson County.
What Grows in Beedeville
Every plant below cleared Beedeville's own zone 8a and its 265-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beedeville?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. 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 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Beedeville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beedeville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BENEFIELD FLYING SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- 09N01W20BDD1Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- 09N01W30BAA1Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- 09N02W05CBB1Nitrate · 6.7 mi
- EASON'S STATUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
- NESLER, JACKUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
- EDWARD HESS, JR.Underground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- RAMSEY, KERRELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- FREESE, JAMES H.Underground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- HICKORY RIDGE ELEMENTARYUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- SATTERFIELD, EDUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.1 mi
- FARMERS SUPPLY ASSOCIATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beedeville'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 Beedeville.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beedeville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beedeville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 14 sites within ~10 miles of Beedeville. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 Beedeville
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 Beedeville average
Your land is one point inside Beedeville
Everything above resolves to Beedeville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 729 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 Beedeville Average
Beedeville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Beedeville
- ●One soil character for all of Beedeville
- ●Frost dates read at Beedeville's scale: Mar 5 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beedeville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beedeville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beedeville, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beedeville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beedeville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beedeville average
How we know this about Beedeville
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 Beedeville’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 Beedeville
When does frost risk typically end in Beedeville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beedeville 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 Beedeville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beedeville typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 265 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beedeville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beedeville sees about 265 frost-free days — roughly Mar 5 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 26 to Nov 11, about 230 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beedeville?
The federal record around Beedeville is light — 33 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (19), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Beedeville?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beedeville's scale — its 8a band and its 265-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beedeville'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 Beedeville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Beedeville's own scale — its own ~265-day season between 28°F freezes, the 729 acres it covers and 33 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beedeville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Beedeville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 5 and Nov 25 and the ~265-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 33 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beedeville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beedeville's boundary and the 729 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~265-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Beedeville's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beedeville's 729 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jackson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jackson 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 Jackson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beedeville's 729 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beedeville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 729 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 Beedeville-wide figureread your own land →
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