Mount Judea, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Mount Judea, 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 Mount Judea lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mount Judea — the short answer
Mount Judea, Arkansas: USDA zone 7b, about 241 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~241
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Mount Judea's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mount Judea's 241-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mount Judea
Each reading below is measured for Mount Judea itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMount Judea runs about 241 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
MeasuredMount Judea 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 Mount Judea is in
Mount Judea sits in the Boston Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mount Judea's own centroid rather than borrowed from Newton County.
What Grows in Mount Judea
Every plant below cleared Mount Judea's own zone 7b and its 241-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mount Judea?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 16 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Mount Judea
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mount Judea. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MT JUDEA GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- C & H HOG FARMSCAFO · 1.4 mi
- BierbaumMining · 2.2 mi
- NORTON'S COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- Lost Mountain MineMining · 4.9 mi
- Turkey Fat MineMining · 4.9 mi
- Upper Cave CreekMining · 5.1 mi
- PIERCE TOWN GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- Little Buffalo RiverMining · 6.0 mi
- 15N21W13BDD1Nitrate · 6.1 mi
- HASTY 123Underground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- Ragged BreechesMining · 6.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mount Judea'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 Mount Judea.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mount Judea
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mount Judea
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mount Judea, Mining runs higher than the national average — 15 sites within ~10 miles of Mount Judea. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Mount Judea
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 Mount Judea average
Your land is one point inside Mount Judea
Everything above resolves to Mount Judea as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Mount Judea Average
Mount Judea Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Mount Judea
- ●One soil character for all of Mount Judea
- ●Frost dates read at Mount Judea's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mount Judea's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mount Judea
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mount Judea, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mount Judea averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mount Judea — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mount Judea average
How we know this about Mount Judea
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 Mount Judea’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 Mount Judea
When does frost risk typically end in Mount Judea?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mount Judea typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Mount Judea?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mount Judea typically arrives around Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 2, so the watching starts about Oct 17 — about 241 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mount Judea?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mount Judea sees about 241 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Nov 2, about 206 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mount Judea?
The federal record around Mount Judea runs heavier than most — 37 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (17), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Mount Judea?
From about Oct 17 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mount Judea's scale — its 7b band and its 241-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mount Judea'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 Mount Judea’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Mount Judea's own scale — its own ~241-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,108 acres it covers and 37 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mount Judea's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mount Judea's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 16 and the ~241-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 37 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mount Judea, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mount Judea's boundary and the 2,108 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~241-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mount Judea's own centroid, the Boston MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mount Judea's 2,108 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Newton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Newton 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 Newton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mount Judea's 2,108 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mount Judea you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,108 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Mount Judea-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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