Violet Hill, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Violet Hill, 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 Violet Hill lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Violet Hill — the short answer
Violet Hill, Arkansas: USDA zone 7b, about 234 days between hard freezes, across 359 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~234
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 359 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 Violet Hill's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Violet Hill's 234-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Violet Hill
Each reading below is measured for Violet Hill itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredViolet Hill runs about 234 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
MeasuredViolet Hill 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 Violet Hill is in
Violet Hill sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Violet Hill's own centroid rather than borrowed from Izard County.
What Grows in Violet Hill
Every plant below cleared Violet Hill's own zone 7b and its 234-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Violet Hill?
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 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — 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 Violet Hill
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Violet Hill. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VIOLET HILL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- MELBOURNE WATERWORKSPFAS · 0.5 mi
- MCCLULLON'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- 18N07W31DCC1Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- DEAN BILLINGSLEYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- FOREMAN'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- FRANKLIN TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- WALKER, OSBURNUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- BROCKWELL STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- IZARD COUNTY CON. SCHOOL DIST.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- MELBOURNE AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- OXFORD TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Violet Hill'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 Violet Hill.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Violet Hill
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Violet Hill
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Violet Hill, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 33 sites within ~10 miles of Violet Hill. 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.
Check your specific parcel in Violet Hill
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 Violet Hill average
Your land is one point inside Violet Hill
Everything above resolves to Violet Hill as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 359 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 Violet Hill Average
Violet Hill Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Violet Hill
- ●One soil character for all of Violet Hill
- ●Frost dates read at Violet Hill's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Violet Hill's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Violet Hill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Violet Hill average
How we know this about Violet Hill
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 Violet Hill’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 Violet Hill
When does frost risk typically end in Violet Hill?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Violet Hill typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Violet Hill?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Violet Hill typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 234 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Violet Hill?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Violet Hill sees about 234 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 28, about 199 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Violet Hill?
The federal record around Violet Hill is light — 42 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (33), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Violet Hill?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Violet Hill's scale — its 7b band and its 234-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Violet Hill'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 Violet Hill’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Violet Hill's own scale — its own ~234-day season between 28°F freezes, the 359 acres it covers and 42 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Violet Hill's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Violet Hill's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 11 and the ~234-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 42 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Violet Hill, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Violet Hill's boundary and the 359 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~234-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Violet Hill's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Violet Hill's 359 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Izard County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Izard 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 Izard County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Violet Hill's 359 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Violet Hill you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 359 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Violet Hill-wide figureread your own land →
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