Witts Springs, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Witts 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 Witts 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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Witts Springs — the short answer
Witts Springs, Arkansas: USDA zone 7b, about 242 days between hard freezes, across 2K 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 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~242
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Witts Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Witts Springs's 242-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Witts Springs
Each reading below is measured for Witts Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWitts Springs runs about 242 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
MeasuredWitts 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 Witts Springs is in
Witts Springs sits in the Boston Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Witts Springs's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Searcy County is mostly Ozark Highlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Witts Springs
Every plant below cleared Witts Springs's own zone 7b and its 242-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Witts 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 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 19 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Witts Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Witts Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WITTS SPRINGS SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- FOUNTAIN'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- DEANNE'S COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- BRYANTS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
- CANAAN GROCERY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.0 mi
- SNOWBALL GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.9 mi
Measured from Witts 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 Witts Springs.
Total Sites
6
within ~10 miles of Witts Springs
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
6 underground storage tanks
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Witts Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Witts Springs
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Your land is one point inside Witts Springs
Everything above resolves to Witts Springs as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Witts Springs Average
Witts Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Witts Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Witts Springs
- ●Frost dates read at Witts Springs's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Witts Springs's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Witts Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Witts 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 Witts 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 Witts Springs
When does frost risk typically end in Witts Springs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Witts Springs 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 Witts Springs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Witts Springs typically arrives around Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 5, so the watching starts about Oct 20 — about 242 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Witts Springs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Witts Springs sees about 242 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Nov 5, about 207 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Witts Springs?
The federal record around Witts Springs is light — 6 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (6), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Witts Springs?
From about Oct 20 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Witts Springs's scale — its 7b band and its 242-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Witts 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 Witts Springs’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Witts Springs's own scale — its own ~242-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,436 acres it covers and 6 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Witts Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Witts Springs's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 19 and the ~242-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 6 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Witts Springs, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Witts Springs's boundary and the 2,436 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~242-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Witts Springs sits in the Boston Mountains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Witts Springs's 2,436 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Searcy County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Searcy 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 Searcy County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Witts Springs's 2,436 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Witts 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 2,436 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Witts Springs-wide figureread your own land →
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