Success, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Success, 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 Success lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Success — the short answer
Success, Arkansas: USDA zone 7b, about 247 days between hard freezes, across 143 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~247
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 143 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 Success's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Success's 247-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Success
Each reading below is measured for Success itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSuccess runs about 247 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
MeasuredSuccess 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 Success is in
Success sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Success's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clay County.
What Grows in Success
Every plant below cleared Success's own zone 7b and its 247-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Success?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Success
Survey cells within 31 miles of Success checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 225 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Success
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Success. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CROCKETT'S STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- NORTHSIDE UNION 76Underground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- CORNING MUNICIPAL AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- WOOLARD FLYING SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- MTM AIRCRAFTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- 20N04E04AAB1Nitrate · 5.3 mi
- FARM SERVICE, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- 21N04E34DCA1Nitrate · 5.9 mi
- 20N02E01DBB1Nitrate · 6.0 mi
- 21N04E34DDC1Nitrate · 6.2 mi
- WILLIAM DONHAM STATE FISHUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- BUD'S SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Success'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 Success.
Total Sites
55
within ~10 miles of Success
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Success
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Success
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Success, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of Success. 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 Success
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 Success
Everything above resolves to Success as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 143 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 Success Average
Success Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Success
- ●One soil character for all of Success
- ●Frost dates read at Success's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Success's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Success
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Success, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Success averages can't show:
We read public map data around Success — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Success average
How we know this about Success
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 Success’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 Success
When does frost risk typically end in Success?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Success typically lands around Mar 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Success?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Success typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 247 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Success?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Success sees about 247 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Nov 4, about 212 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Success?
The federal record around Success is a meaningful one — 55 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (31), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 4.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Success?
From about Oct 19 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Success's scale — its 7b band and its 247-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Success'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 Success’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Success's own scale — its own ~247-day season between 28°F freezes, the 143 acres it covers and 55 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Success's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Success's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 18 and the ~247-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 55 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Success, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 4.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Success's boundary and the 143 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~247-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Success's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Success checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Success's 143 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 Success's 143 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Success you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 143 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 4.2 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 Success-wide figureread your own land →
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