Greers Ferry, 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.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Greers Ferry, 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 Greers Ferry lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Greers Ferry — the short answer
Greers Ferry, Arkansas: USDA zone 7b, about 244 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~244
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 5K 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 Greers Ferry's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Greers Ferry's 244-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Greers Ferry
Each reading below is measured for Greers Ferry itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGreers Ferry runs about 244 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
MeasuredGreers Ferry 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 Greers Ferry is in
Greers Ferry sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Greers Ferry's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cleburne County.
What Grows in Greers Ferry
Every plant below cleared Greers Ferry's own zone 7b and its 244-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Greers Ferry?
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 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 17 — 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 Greers Ferry
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Greers Ferry. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WEST SIDE SCHOOL DISTRICTBrownfields · 1700 ft
- WESTSIDE PUBLIC SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- J.B.'S PIT STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- GREERS FERRY, CITY OFUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- COMMUNITY WATERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- QUIK MART #7Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- LACEY'S NARROWS MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- HIGDEN 66Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- J AND S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- EDGEMONT GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- HILL CREEK PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- WATSON'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Greers Ferry'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 Greers Ferry.
Total Sites
94
within ~10 miles of Greers Ferry
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Greers Ferry
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Greers Ferry
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Greers Ferry, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 77 sites within ~10 miles of Greers Ferry. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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Your land is one point inside Greers Ferry
Everything above resolves to Greers Ferry as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Greers Ferry Average
Greers Ferry Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Greers Ferry
- ●One soil character for all of Greers Ferry
- ●Frost dates read at Greers Ferry's scale: Mar 18 to Nov 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Greers Ferry's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Greers Ferry
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Greers Ferry, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Greers Ferry averages can't show:
We read public map data around Greers Ferry — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Greers Ferry average
How we know this about Greers Ferry
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 Greers Ferry’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 Greers Ferry
When does frost risk typically end in Greers Ferry?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Greers Ferry typically lands around Mar 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Greers Ferry?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Greers Ferry typically arrives around Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 3, so the watching starts about Oct 18 — about 244 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Greers Ferry?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Greers Ferry sees about 244 frost-free days — roughly Mar 18 through Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 8 to Nov 3, about 209 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Greers Ferry?
The federal record around Greers Ferry shows 94 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (77), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Greers Ferry?
From about Oct 18 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Greers Ferry's scale — its 7b band and its 244-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Greers Ferry'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 Greers Ferry’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Greers Ferry's own scale — its own ~244-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,620 acres it covers and 94 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Greers Ferry's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Greers Ferry's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 18 and Nov 17 and the ~244-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 94 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Greers Ferry, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Greers Ferry's boundary and the 4,620 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~244-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Greers Ferry's own centroid, the Arkansas ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Greers Ferry's 4,620 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cleburne County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cleburne 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 Cleburne County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Greers Ferry's 4,620 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Greers Ferry you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,620 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Greers Ferry-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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