Ozark Acres, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Ozark Acres, 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 Ozark Acres lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Ozark Acres — the short answer
Ozark Acres, Arkansas: USDA zone 7b, about 238 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~238
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 Ozark Acres's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ozark Acres's 238-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ozark Acres
Each reading below is measured for Ozark Acres itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredOzark Acres runs about 238 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
MeasuredOzark Acres 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 Ozark Acres is in
Ozark Acres sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Ozark Acres's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sharp County.
What Grows in Ozark Acres
Every plant below cleared Ozark Acres's own zone 7b and its 238-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ozark Acres?
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 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 14 — 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 Ozark Acres
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ozark Acres. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 19N04W15BAA1Nitrate · 2300 ft
- BALDRIDGE, CLARENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- OZARK ACRES SUBURBAN IMPROVEMEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- 19N04W15ACD1Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- FLASH MARKET#119Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- KWIKSERV #1Underground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- 19N04W36ACA1Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- CHEROKEE VILLAGE WATER ASSOCPFAS · 4.4 mi
- HARDY W/W TREATMENT PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- KWIKSERV #3Underground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- LAWRENCE, MARGARETUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- C & J GROCERY & GASUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ozark Acres'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 Ozark Acres.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ozark Acres
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ozark Acres
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ozark Acres, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 39 sites within ~10 miles of Ozark Acres. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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Your land is one point inside Ozark Acres
Everything above resolves to Ozark Acres as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Ozark Acres Average
Ozark Acres Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Ozark Acres
- ●One soil character for all of Ozark Acres
- ●Frost dates read at Ozark Acres's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ozark Acres's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Ozark Acres — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ozark Acres average
How we know this about Ozark Acres
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 Ozark Acres’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 Ozark Acres
When does frost risk typically end in Ozark Acres?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ozark Acres typically lands around Mar 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Ozark Acres?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ozark Acres typically arrives around Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 31, so the watching starts about Oct 15 — about 238 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ozark Acres?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ozark Acres sees about 238 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Oct 31, about 203 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ozark Acres?
The federal record around Ozark Acres shows 50 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (39), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Ozark Acres?
From about Oct 15 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ozark Acres's scale — its 7b band and its 238-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ozark Acres'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 Ozark Acres’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Ozark Acres's own scale — its own ~238-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,459 acres it covers and 50 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ozark Acres's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Ozark Acres's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 14 and the ~238-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 50 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ozark Acres, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ozark Acres's boundary and the 4,459 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~238-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ozark Acres's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Ozark Acres's 4,459 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sharp County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sharp 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 Sharp County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Ozark Acres's 4,459 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ozark Acres you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,459 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Ozark Acres-wide figureread your own land →
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