Fox, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Fox, 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 Fox lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Fox — the short answer
Fox, Arkansas: USDA zone 7b, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~233
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 7b is Fox's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fox's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fox
Each reading below is measured for Fox itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFox 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
MeasuredFox sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Fox is in
Fox sits in the Boston Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Fox's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Stone County is mostly Ozark Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Fox
Every plant below cleared Fox's own zone 7b and its 233-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fox?
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 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Fox
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fox. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FOX COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- RURAL SPECIAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- BONDS GROCERY & STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- JEWELL MOTELUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- CALLAHAN FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- ALCO STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- 12N12W08AAC1Nitrate · 6.1 mi
- TIMBO SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- CLARK'S EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.4 mi
- WEST STONE COUNTY WATER ASSNPFAS · 6.8 mi
- TIMBO GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- COCCIA'S COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fox'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 Fox.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fox
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fox
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •PFAS do not break down in groundwater. Irrigate from a tested source.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Fox
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 Fox
Everything above resolves to Fox as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Fox Average
Fox Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Fox
- ●One soil character for all of Fox
- ●Frost dates read at Fox's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fox's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fox
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fox, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Fox — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fox average
How we know this about Fox
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 Fox’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 Fox
When does frost risk typically end in Fox?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fox typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Fox?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fox typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 233 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fox?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fox sees about 233 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 27, about 198 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fox?
The federal record around Fox shows 22 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (16), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Fox?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fox's scale — its 7b band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fox'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 Fox’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Fox's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,489 acres it covers and 22 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fox's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fox's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 10 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 22 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fox, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fox's boundary and the 3,489 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~233-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Fox sits in the Boston Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Fox's 3,489 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Stone County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Stone 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 Stone County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fox's 3,489 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fox you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,489 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Fox-wide figureread your own land →
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