Flippin, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Flippin, 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 Flippin lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Flippin — the short answer
Flippin, Arkansas: USDA zone 7a, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~233
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 1K 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 Flippin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Flippin's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Flippin
Each reading below is measured for Flippin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFlippin runs about 233 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
MeasuredFlippin 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 Flippin is in
Flippin sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Flippin's own centroid rather than borrowed from Marion County.
What Grows in Flippin
Every plant below cleared Flippin's own zone 7a and its 233-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Flippin?
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 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — 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 Flippin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Flippin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BARBEQ HUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- MARION CO. REG. AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- SPORTSMAN DOCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- 19N15W20ACC1Nitrate · 950 ft
- NORTH ARKANSAS TELEPHONE COMPAUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- EZ MART #4248Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- FLIPPIN PUBLIC SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- SNAPPY MART #10Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- EAST PLANT - ADVANCED MARINE PERFORMANCE, LLCBrownfields · 2100 ft
- KERR MCGEE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- FLIPPIN CITGOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- MURPHY USA #7184Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Flippin'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 Flippin.
Total Sites
184
within ~10 miles of Flippin
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Flippin
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Flippin
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Flippin, Mining runs higher than the national average — 87 sites within ~10 miles of Flippin. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
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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 Flippin
Everything above resolves to Flippin as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Flippin Average
Flippin Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Flippin
- ●One soil character for all of Flippin
- ●Frost dates read at Flippin's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Flippin's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Flippin
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Flippin, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Flippin averages can't show:
We read public map data around Flippin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Flippin average
How we know this about Flippin
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 Flippin’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 Flippin
When does frost risk typically end in Flippin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Flippin typically lands around Mar 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Flippin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Flippin typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 233 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Flippin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Flippin sees about 233 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Oct 26, about 198 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Flippin?
The federal record around Flippin runs heavier than most — 184 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (87), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Flippin?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Flippin's scale — its 7a band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Flippin'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 Flippin’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Flippin's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,205 acres it covers and 184 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Flippin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Flippin's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 9 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 184 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Flippin, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Flippin's boundary and the 1,205 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~233-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Flippin's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Flippin's 1,205 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marion County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marion 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 Marion County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Flippin's 1,205 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Flippin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,205 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Flippin-wide figureread your own land →
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