New Edinburg, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 New Edinburg, 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 Edinburg 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 Edinburg — the short answer
New Edinburg, Arkansas: USDA zone 8a, about 256 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 8
- Cleveland County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 19
- Cleveland County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~256
- Cleveland County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town 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 Cleveland County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is New Edinburg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Edinburg's 256-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Edinburg
Each reading below is measured for New Edinburg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsNew Edinburg runs about 256 days between hard freezes (read from Cleveland County, the closest normal to New Edinburg) — 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 Edinburg 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 Edinburg is in
New Edinburg sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Edinburg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cleveland County.
What Grows in New Edinburg
Every plant below cleared New Edinburg's own zone 8a and its 256-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Edinburg?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 8 (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. 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 New Edinburg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Edinburg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MC CLELLANS COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- NEW EDINBURG MERCANTILEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- RAY ESTES STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- SMITH CHAPEL GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- 11S11W05ACC1Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- 12S10W04ABA1Nitrate · 6.8 mi
- GEORGIA-PACIFIC WOOD PRODUCTS LLC FORDYCE OSBToxics Release Inventory · 7.3 mi
- GEORGIA-PACIFIC WOOD PRODUCTS LLC FORDYCE OSBBrownfields · 7.3 mi
- 11S12W19ADC1Nitrate · 7.6 mi
- 10S12W12CAB1Nitrate · 7.7 mi
- 11S12W29CCA1Nitrate · 7.7 mi
- ROGERS MILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Edinburg'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 Edinburg.
Total Sites
35
within ~10 miles of New Edinburg
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Edinburg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Edinburg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Edinburg, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 22 sites within ~10 miles of New Edinburg. 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 New Edinburg
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 Edinburg average
Your land is one point inside New Edinburg
Everything above resolves to New Edinburg as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Cleveland County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’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 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 Edinburg Average
New Edinburg Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across New Edinburg
- ●One soil character for all of New Edinburg
- ●Frost dates read at New Edinburg's scale: Mar 8 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Edinburg's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Edinburg
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Edinburg, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Edinburg averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Edinburg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Edinburg average
How we know this about New Edinburg
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 Cleveland 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 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 Edinburg
When does frost risk typically end in New Edinburg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Edinburg typically lands around Mar 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in New Edinburg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Edinburg 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 256 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Edinburg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Edinburg sees about 256 frost-free days — roughly Mar 8 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 29 to Nov 5, about 221 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Edinburg?
The federal record around New Edinburg is light — 35 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (22), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in New Edinburg?
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 Edinburg's scale — its 8a band and its 256-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Edinburg'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 Edinburg’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at New Edinburg's own scale — the 2,050 acres it covers and 35 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Edinburg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 35 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Edinburg, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Edinburg's boundary and the 2,050 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~256-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Edinburg's own centroid, the South Central PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — New Edinburg has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Cleveland County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Edinburg's 2,050 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cleveland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cleveland 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 Cleveland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Edinburg's 2,050 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Edinburg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,050 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 New Edinburg-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across ArkansasNew Edinburg sits outside our named growing regions, so Arkansas as a whole is its closest context here.