Peach Orchard, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Peach Orchard, 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 Peach Orchard lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Peach Orchard — the short answer
Peach Orchard, Arkansas: USDA zone 7b, about 254 days between hard freezes, across 659 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~254
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 659 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 Peach Orchard's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Peach Orchard's 254-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Peach Orchard
Each reading below is measured for Peach Orchard itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPeach Orchard runs about 254 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
MeasuredPeach Orchard 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 Peach Orchard is in
Peach Orchard sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Peach Orchard's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clay County.
What Grows in Peach Orchard
Every plant below cleared Peach Orchard's own zone 7b and its 254-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Peach Orchard?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Peach Orchard
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Peach Orchard. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SQUIRES CONOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- BLACK RIVER WILDLIFE MGMT AREAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- RUSSON, LEEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- FARM SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- 19N04E01ABB1Nitrate · 4.6 mi
- DELAPLAINE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- THE RESERVATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- EUBANKS CHEVRONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- DELAPLAINE AR.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- 18N03E10ACC1Nitrate · 6.4 mi
- THE LITTLE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.6 mi
- 18N04E21CAA1Nitrate · 6.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Peach Orchard'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 Peach Orchard.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Peach Orchard
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Peach Orchard
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Peach Orchard, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 22 sites within ~10 miles of Peach Orchard. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Peach Orchard
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Peach Orchard
Everything above resolves to Peach Orchard as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 659 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 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 Peach Orchard Average
Peach Orchard Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Peach Orchard
- ●One soil character for all of Peach Orchard
- ●Frost dates read at Peach Orchard's scale: Mar 12 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Peach Orchard's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Peach Orchard, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Peach Orchard — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Peach Orchard average
How we know this about Peach Orchard
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 Peach Orchard’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 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 Peach Orchard
When does frost risk typically end in Peach Orchard?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Peach Orchard typically lands around Mar 12, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Peach Orchard?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Peach Orchard typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 254 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Peach Orchard?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Peach Orchard sees about 254 frost-free days — roughly Mar 12 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 2 to Nov 7, about 219 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Peach Orchard?
The federal record around Peach Orchard shows 61 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (36), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Peach Orchard?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Peach Orchard's scale — its 7b band and its 254-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Peach Orchard'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 Peach Orchard’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Peach Orchard's own scale — its own ~254-day season between 28°F freezes, the 659 acres it covers and 61 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Peach Orchard's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Peach Orchard's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 12 and Nov 21 and the ~254-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 61 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Peach Orchard, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Peach Orchard's boundary and the 659 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~254-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Peach Orchard's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Peach Orchard's 659 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clay County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clay 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 Clay County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Peach Orchard's 659 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Peach Orchard you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 659 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Peach Orchard-wide figureread your own land →
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