Berryville, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Berryville, 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 Berryville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Berryville — the short answer
Berryville, Arkansas: USDA zone 7a, about 227 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- 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
- ~227
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 4K 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 Berryville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Berryville's 227-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Berryville
Each reading below is measured for Berryville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBerryville runs about 227 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
MeasuredBerryville 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 Berryville is in
Berryville sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Berryville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Carroll County.
What Grows in Berryville
Every plant below cleared Berryville's own zone 7a and its 227-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Berryville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (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 Berryville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Berryville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TYSON FOODS INC - BERRYVILLE PROCESSINGToxics Release Inventory · 700 ft
- TYSON FOODS INC - BERRYVILLE PROCESSINGBrownfields · 700 ft
- TYSON FOODS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- JR FOOD MART 136Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BERRYVILLE CONOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- WALKER SALES COMPANY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- BERRYVILLE EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- BERRYVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- BERRYVILLE TIRE SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- BERRYVILLE TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- BERRYVILLE HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 2200 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Berryville'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 Berryville.
Total Sites
79
within ~10 miles of Berryville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Berryville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Berryville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Berryville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Berryville — Underground Storage Tanks (51 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (5 sites). 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.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Berryville
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 Berryville
Everything above resolves to Berryville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 city 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 Berryville Average
Berryville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Berryville
- ●One soil character for all of Berryville
- ●Frost dates read at Berryville's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Berryville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Berryville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Berryville, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Berryville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Berryville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Berryville average
How we know this about Berryville
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Berryville’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Berryville
When does frost risk typically end in Berryville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Berryville typically lands around Mar 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Berryville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Berryville 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 227 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Berryville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Berryville sees about 227 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 24, about 192 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Berryville?
The federal record around Berryville shows 79 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (51), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.1 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 Berryville?
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 Berryville's scale — its 7a band and its 227-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Berryville'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 Berryville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Berryville's own scale — its own ~227-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,225 acres it covers and 79 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Berryville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Berryville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 7 and the ~227-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 79 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Berryville, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Berryville's boundary and the 4,225 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~227-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Berryville's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Berryville's 4,225 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Carroll County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Carroll 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 Carroll County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Berryville's 4,225 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Berryville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,225 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.1 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 Berryville-wide figureread your own land →
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