New Blaine, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Blaine, 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 New Blaine lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Blaine — the short answer
New Blaine, Arkansas: USDA zone 8a, about 251 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 13
- 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
- ~251
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 New Blaine's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Blaine's 251-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Blaine
Each reading below is measured for New Blaine itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Blaine runs about 251 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
MeasuredNew Blaine 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 New Blaine is in
New Blaine sits in the Arkansas Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Blaine's own centroid rather than borrowed from Logan County.
What Grows in New Blaine
Every plant below cleared New Blaine's own zone 8a and its 251-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Blaine?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 13 (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. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near New Blaine
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Blaine. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SHOAL BAY MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- THE TRADING POST MINI MALLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 07N23W04ACB1Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- LOWERY'S KERR-MCGEEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- NEW BLAINE GENERAL STORE INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- FIRST NATIONAL BANK AT PARISUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- PHILLIP FOOD CENTER #2Underground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- MIDWAY MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- SPENCER STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- GULF MASTER INC BAY HAWK INDUSTRIESToxics Release Inventory · 6.9 mi
- HAIR MECHANICS BARBERSHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- CHARLIE'SUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Blaine'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 New Blaine.
Total Sites
53
within ~10 miles of New Blaine
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Blaine
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Blaine
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Blaine, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of New Blaine — Toxics Release Inventory (5 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (34 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 New Blaine
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 New Blaine average
Your land is one point inside New Blaine
Everything above resolves to New Blaine as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 New Blaine Average
New Blaine Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across New Blaine
- ●One soil character for all of New Blaine
- ●Frost dates read at New Blaine's scale: Mar 13 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Blaine's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Blaine
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Blaine, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Blaine averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Blaine — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Blaine average
How we know this about New Blaine
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 New Blaine’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 New Blaine
When does frost risk typically end in New Blaine?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Blaine typically lands around Mar 13, 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 3.
When is the first frost in New Blaine?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Blaine 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 251 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Blaine?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Blaine sees about 251 frost-free days — roughly Mar 13 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 3 to Nov 5, about 216 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Blaine?
The federal record around New Blaine shows 53 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (34), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 New Blaine?
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 New Blaine's scale — its 8a band and its 251-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Blaine'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 New Blaine’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at New Blaine's own scale — its own ~251-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,021 acres it covers and 53 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Blaine's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Blaine's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 13 and Nov 19 and the ~251-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 53 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Blaine, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Blaine's boundary and the 1,021 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~251-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Blaine's own centroid, the Arkansas ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Blaine's 1,021 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Logan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Logan 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 Logan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Blaine's 1,021 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Blaine you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,021 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 New Blaine-wide figureread your own land →
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