Williford, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Williford, 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 Williford lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Williford — the short answer
Williford, Arkansas: USDA zone 7b, about 244 days between hard freezes, across 223 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~244
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 223 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 Williford's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Williford's 244-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Williford
Each reading below is measured for Williford itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWilliford runs about 244 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
MeasuredWilliford 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 Williford is in
Williford sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Williford's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sharp County.
What Grows in Williford
Every plant below cleared Williford's own zone 7b and its 244-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Williford?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 17 — 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 Williford
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Williford. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 19N04W36ACA1Nitrate · 1800 ft
- FLASH MARKET#119Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- OZARK ACRES SUBURBAN IMPROVEMEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- OZARK GIFT SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- 19N04W15BAA1Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- BALDRIDGE, CLARENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- SNEEDS GROCERY AND STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- 19N04W15ACD1Nitrate · 4.7 mi
- TRADEN-SAM'SUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- KWIKSERV #1Underground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- NAYLOR'S ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
- KWIKSERV #2Underground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Williford'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 Williford.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Williford
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Williford
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Williford, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Williford — Mining (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (32 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Williford
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 Williford
Everything above resolves to Williford as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 223 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 Williford Average
Williford Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Williford
- ●One soil character for all of Williford
- ●Frost dates read at Williford's scale: Mar 18 to Nov 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Williford's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Williford
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We read public map data around Williford — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Williford average
How we know this about Williford
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 Williford’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 Williford
When does frost risk typically end in Williford?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Williford typically lands around Mar 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Williford?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Williford typically arrives around Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 3, so the watching starts about Oct 18 — about 244 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Williford?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Williford sees about 244 frost-free days — roughly Mar 18 through Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 8 to Nov 3, about 209 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Williford?
The federal record around Williford is a meaningful one — 48 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (32), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Williford?
From about Oct 18 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Williford's scale — its 7b band and its 244-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Williford'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 Williford’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Williford's own scale — its own ~244-day season between 28°F freezes, the 223 acres it covers and 48 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Williford's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Williford's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 18 and Nov 17 and the ~244-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 48 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Williford, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Williford's boundary and the 223 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~244-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Williford's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Williford's 223 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sharp County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sharp 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 Sharp County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Williford's 223 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Williford you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 223 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Williford-wide figureread your own land →
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