Lake Village, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Lake Village, 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 Lake Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Lake Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lake Village — the short answer
Lake Village, Arkansas: USDA zone 8b, about 284 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 19
- Chicot County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 30
- Chicot County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~284
- Chicot County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 2K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Chicot County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Lake Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lake Village's 284-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lake Village
Each reading below is measured for Lake Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLake Village runs about 284 days between hard freezes (read from Chicot County, the closest normal to Lake Village) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredLake Village sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Lake Village is in
Lake Village sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lake Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Chicot County.
What Grows in Lake Village
Every plant below cleared Lake Village's own zone 8b and its 284-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lake Village?
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 Jan 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Lake Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lake Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JIFFY J STORES, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- EPSTEIN LAND - EPSTEIN GINUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- CHICOT COUNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- LAKE SHORE MOTOR COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- BOBBY MILLERUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- ALEX PIERONI FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- LAKE VILLAGE AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- LAKE VILLAGE CITY HALLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- CHICOT COUNTY COURTHOUSEToxics Release Inventory · 1100 ft
- JON DAN YEEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- DOUBLE QUICK #79Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- AMIGO'S MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lake Village'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 Lake Village.
Total Sites
90
within ~10 miles of Lake Village
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lake Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lake Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lake Village, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 32 sites within ~10 miles of Lake Village. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Lake Village
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 Lake Village average
Your land is one point inside Lake Village
Everything above resolves to Lake Village as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Chicot County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’s own centroid. 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 Lake Village Average
Lake Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Lake Village
- ●One soil character for all of Lake Village
- ●Frost dates read at Lake Village's scale: Feb 19 to Nov 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lake Village's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lake Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lake Village, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lake Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lake Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lake Village average
How we know this about Lake Village
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 Chicot County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Lake Village
When does frost risk typically end in Lake Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Village typically lands around Feb 19, 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 Mar 12.
When is the first frost in Lake Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Village typically arrives around Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 16, so the watching starts about Oct 31 — about 284 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lake Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lake Village sees about 284 frost-free days — roughly Feb 19 through Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 12 to Nov 16, about 249 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lake Village?
The federal record around Lake Village shows 90 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (46), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lake Village?
From about Oct 31 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lake Village's scale — its 8b band and its 284-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lake Village'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 Lake Village’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Lake Village's own scale — the 1,530 acres it covers and 90 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lake Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 90 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lake Village, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lake Village's boundary and the 1,530 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~284-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lake Village's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Lake Village has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Chicot County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lake Village's 1,530 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Chicot County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Chicot 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 Chicot County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lake Village's 1,530 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lake Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,530 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lake Village-wide figureread your own land →
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