Traskwood, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Traskwood, 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 Traskwood lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Traskwood — the short answer
Traskwood, Arkansas: USDA zone 8a, about 262 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 4
- 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
- ~262
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 8a is Traskwood's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Traskwood's 262-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Traskwood
Each reading below is measured for Traskwood itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTraskwood runs about 262 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredTraskwood 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 Traskwood is in
Traskwood sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Traskwood's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Saline County is mostly Ouachita Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Traskwood
Every plant below cleared Traskwood's own zone 8a and its 262-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Traskwood?
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 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 4 (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. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Traskwood
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Traskwood. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DON'S WHISTLE STOP INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ADAMS GROCERY & STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SOUTHWEST WATER ASSOCIATIONPFAS · 2.1 mi
- FAIRPLAY COMMUNITY MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- SPUR STATION #3618Underground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- HUCKABY FOODS (FORMER)Underground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- WEST WAY GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- 03S16W21ACB3Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- BIGGIES CORNER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- HOWARD'S MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- GLEN ROSE SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- 03S16W21BDA1Nitrate · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Traskwood'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 Traskwood.
Total Sites
223
within ~10 miles of Traskwood
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Traskwood
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Traskwood
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Traskwood, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 14 sites within ~10 miles of Traskwood. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Traskwood
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 Traskwood average
Your land is one point inside Traskwood
Everything above resolves to Traskwood 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 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 Traskwood Average
Traskwood Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Traskwood
- ●One soil character for all of Traskwood
- ●Frost dates read at Traskwood's scale: Mar 4 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Traskwood's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Traskwood
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Traskwood, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Traskwood averages can't show:
We read public map data around Traskwood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Traskwood average
How we know this about Traskwood
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 Traskwood’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 Traskwood
When does frost risk typically end in Traskwood?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Traskwood typically lands around Mar 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Traskwood?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Traskwood 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 262 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Traskwood?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Traskwood sees about 262 frost-free days — roughly Mar 4 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 25 to Nov 7, about 227 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Traskwood?
The federal record around Traskwood is a meaningful one — 223 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (133), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Traskwood?
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 Traskwood's scale — its 8a band and its 262-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Traskwood'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 Traskwood’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Traskwood's own scale — its own ~262-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,603 acres it covers and 223 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Traskwood's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Traskwood's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 4 and Nov 21 and the ~262-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 223 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Traskwood, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Traskwood's boundary and the 3,603 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~262-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Traskwood sits in the South Central Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Traskwood's 3,603 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Saline County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Saline 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 Saline County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Traskwood's 3,603 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Traskwood you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,603 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Traskwood-wide figureread your own land →
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