Hagarville, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Hagarville, 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 Hagarville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Hagarville — the short answer
Hagarville, Arkansas: USDA zone 8a, about 248 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~248
- 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 8a is Hagarville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Hagarville's 248-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Hagarville
Each reading below is measured for Hagarville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHagarville runs about 248 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
MeasuredHagarville 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 Hagarville is in
Hagarville sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Hagarville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Johnson County is mostly Boston Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Hagarville
Every plant below cleared Hagarville's own zone 8a and its 248-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Hagarville?
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 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Hagarville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Hagarville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HAGARVILLE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- THE CORNER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- CLARKSVILLE CONNECTED UTILITIESPFAS · 2.2 mi
- PALMER, WARRENUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- HAGARVILLE GROCERY SINCLAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- Keys GapMining · 2.9 mi
- HUNTER'S JUNCTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- LEE'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- FLAT ROCK 1-STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- STERICYCLE @ JOHNSON CNTY RD DPTBrownfields · 5.9 mi
- D J'S GAS AND GROCERIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- LAMAR GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Hagarville'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 Hagarville.
Total Sites
131
within ~10 miles of Hagarville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
12 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Hagarville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Hagarville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Hagarville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Hagarville — Toxics Release Inventory (12 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (91 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Hagarville
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 Hagarville average
Your land is one point inside Hagarville
Everything above resolves to Hagarville 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 Hagarville Average
Hagarville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Hagarville
- ●One soil character for all of Hagarville
- ●Frost dates read at Hagarville's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Hagarville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Hagarville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Hagarville, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Hagarville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Hagarville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Hagarville average
How we know this about Hagarville
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 Hagarville’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 Hagarville
When does frost risk typically end in Hagarville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Hagarville typically lands around Mar 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Hagarville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Hagarville typically arrives around Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 5, so the watching starts about Oct 20 — about 248 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Hagarville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Hagarville sees about 248 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Nov 5, about 213 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Hagarville?
The federal record around Hagarville shows 131 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (91), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Hagarville?
From about Oct 20 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Hagarville's scale — its 8a band and its 248-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Hagarville'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 Hagarville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Hagarville's own scale — its own ~248-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,652 acres it covers and 131 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Hagarville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Hagarville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 19 and the ~248-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 131 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Hagarville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Hagarville's boundary and the 2,652 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~248-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Hagarville sits in the Arkansas Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Hagarville's 2,652 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Johnson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Johnson 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 Johnson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Hagarville's 2,652 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Hagarville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,652 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 Hagarville-wide figureread your own land →
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