Ravenden Springs, 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.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Ravenden Springs, 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 Ravenden Springs lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Ravenden Springs — the short answer
Ravenden Springs, Arkansas: USDA zone 7b, about 231 days between hard freezes, across 746 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~231
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 746 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 Ravenden Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ravenden Springs's 231-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ravenden Springs
Each reading below is measured for Ravenden Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRavenden Springs runs about 231 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
MeasuredRavenden Springs 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 Ravenden Springs is in
Ravenden Springs sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Ravenden Springs's own centroid rather than borrowed from Randolph County.
What Grows in Ravenden Springs
Every plant below cleared Ravenden Springs's own zone 7b and its 231-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ravenden Springs?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — 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 Ravenden Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ravenden Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 19N02W07AAA1Nitrate · 1300 ft
- SPEARS MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- WELLS PALLET MANUFACTURING CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- MATTHEWS, BOBBYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- OAK RIDGE CENTRAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- RAVENDEN JUNCTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- OZARK GIFT SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- TRADEN-SAM'SUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- KWIKSERV #2Underground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- NAYLOR'S ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- 20N02W15DAD1Nitrate · 5.6 mi
- 18N02W02CAC1Nitrate · 6.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ravenden Springs'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 Ravenden Springs.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ravenden Springs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ravenden Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ravenden Springs, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Ravenden Springs. 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 Ravenden Springs
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 Ravenden Springs average
Your land is one point inside Ravenden Springs
Everything above resolves to Ravenden Springs as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 746 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 Ravenden Springs Average
Ravenden Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Ravenden Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Ravenden Springs
- ●Frost dates read at Ravenden Springs's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ravenden Springs's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Ravenden Springs
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Ravenden Springs, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Ravenden Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Ravenden Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ravenden Springs average
How we know this about Ravenden Springs
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 Ravenden Springs’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 Ravenden Springs
When does frost risk typically end in Ravenden Springs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ravenden Springs typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Ravenden Springs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ravenden Springs typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 231 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ravenden Springs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ravenden Springs sees about 231 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Oct 26, about 196 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ravenden Springs?
The federal record around Ravenden Springs is light — 35 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (18), the nearest Nitrate 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 Ravenden Springs?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ravenden Springs's scale — its 7b band and its 231-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ravenden Springs'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 Ravenden Springs’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Ravenden Springs's own scale — its own ~231-day season between 28°F freezes, the 746 acres it covers and 35 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ravenden Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Ravenden Springs's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 9 and the ~231-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 35 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ravenden Springs, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ravenden Springs's boundary and the 746 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~231-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ravenden Springs's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Ravenden Springs's 746 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Randolph County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Randolph 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 Randolph County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Ravenden Springs's 746 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ravenden Springs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 746 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Ravenden Springs-wide figureread your own land →
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