Leachville, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Leachville, 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 Leachville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Leachville — the short answer
Leachville, Arkansas: USDA zone 8a, about 262 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~262
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 Leachville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Leachville's 262-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Leachville
Each reading below is measured for Leachville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLeachville runs about 262 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredLeachville 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 Leachville is in
Leachville sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Leachville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mississippi County.
What Grows in Leachville
Every plant below cleared Leachville's own zone 8a and its 262-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Leachville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 24 — 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 Leachville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Leachville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NATIONAL FLORIST DIRECTORY INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- BAILEYS 66 STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- JAMES AUTO SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- SOUTHWORTH PRODUCTSBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- GARYS FOOD MART #3Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- CITY SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- 15N08E08DBC2Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- 15N08E08DBC3Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- 15N08E08DBC1Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- CORNER MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- ARMOREL SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- LEACHVILLE STATUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Leachville'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 Leachville.
Total Sites
90
within ~10 miles of Leachville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Leachville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Leachville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Leachville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Leachville — PFAS (3 sites) and Nitrate (42 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Leachville
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Your land is one point inside Leachville
Everything above resolves to Leachville 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 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 Leachville Average
Leachville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Leachville
- ●One soil character for all of Leachville
- ●Frost dates read at Leachville's scale: Mar 7 to Nov 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Leachville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Leachville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Leachville, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Leachville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Leachville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Leachville average
How we know this about Leachville
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 Leachville’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 Leachville
When does frost risk typically end in Leachville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Leachville typically lands around Mar 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Leachville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Leachville typically arrives around Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 10, so the watching starts about Oct 25 — about 262 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Leachville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Leachville sees about 262 frost-free days — roughly Mar 7 through Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 28 to Nov 10, about 227 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Leachville?
The federal record around Leachville is a meaningful one — 90 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (42), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.7 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Leachville?
From about Oct 25 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Leachville's scale — its 8a band and its 262-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Leachville'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 Leachville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Leachville's own scale — its own ~262-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,818 acres it covers and 90 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Leachville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Leachville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 7 and Nov 24 and the ~262-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 90 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Leachville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Leachville's boundary and the 2,818 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~262-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Leachville's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Leachville's 2,818 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mississippi County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mississippi 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 Mississippi County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Leachville's 2,818 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Leachville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,818 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 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 Leachville-wide figureread your own land →
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