Lewisville, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lewisville, 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 Lewisville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lewisville — the short answer
Lewisville, Arkansas: USDA zone 8b, about 264 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 1
- Lafayette County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 20
- Lafayette County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~264
- Lafayette County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 1K 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 Lafayette County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Lewisville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lewisville's 264-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lewisville
Each reading below is measured for Lewisville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLewisville runs about 264 days between hard freezes (read from Lafayette County, the closest normal to Lewisville) — 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
MeasuredLewisville 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 Lewisville is in
Lewisville sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lewisville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lafayette County.
What Grows in Lewisville
Every plant below cleared Lewisville's own zone 8b and its 264-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lewisville?
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 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Lewisville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lewisville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DON ROSS GROCERY & STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- 16S24W15BCB1Nitrate · 1300 ft
- LEWISVILLE, ARKANSASUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- LEWISVILLE BUS BARNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- LEWISVILLE RAILROAD YARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- 16S24W15CBB1Nitrate · 1900 ft
- EDWARDS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- LEWISVILLE AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- TIM'S FOOD STORE LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- M & M QUICKSTOP #3Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- IN & OUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- TIM'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lewisville'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 Lewisville.
Total Sites
88
within ~10 miles of Lewisville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lewisville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lewisville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lewisville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 28 sites within ~10 miles of Lewisville. 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).
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Your land is one point inside Lewisville
Everything above resolves to Lewisville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Lafayette 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 Lewisville Average
Lewisville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Lewisville
- ●One soil character for all of Lewisville
- ●Frost dates read at Lewisville's scale: Mar 1 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lewisville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lewisville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lewisville, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lewisville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lewisville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lewisville average
How we know this about Lewisville
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 Lafayette 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 Lewisville
When does frost risk typically end in Lewisville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lewisville typically lands around Mar 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Lewisville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lewisville typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 264 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lewisville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lewisville sees about 264 frost-free days — roughly Mar 1 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 22 to Nov 6, about 229 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lewisville?
The federal record around Lewisville shows 88 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (51), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Lewisville?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lewisville's scale — its 8b band and its 264-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lewisville'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 Lewisville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Lewisville's own scale — the 1,375 acres it covers and 88 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lewisville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 88 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lewisville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lewisville's boundary and the 1,375 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~264-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lewisville's own centroid, the South Central PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Lewisville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Lafayette County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lewisville's 1,375 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lafayette County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lafayette 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 Lafayette County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lewisville's 1,375 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lewisville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,375 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Lewisville-wide figureread your own land →