Wrightsville, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Wrightsville, 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 Wrightsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Wrightsville — the short answer
Wrightsville, Arkansas: USDA zone 8a, about 273 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~273
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 1K 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 Wrightsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wrightsville's 273-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wrightsville
Each reading below is measured for Wrightsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWrightsville runs about 273 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
MeasuredWrightsville 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 Wrightsville is in
Wrightsville sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Wrightsville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Pulaski County is mostly Ouachita Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Wrightsville
Every plant below cleared Wrightsville's own zone 8a and its 273-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wrightsville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 30; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Wrightsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wrightsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- A I STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- FIOCCHI OF AMERICA, INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 1.9 mi
- 01S11W27BCC1Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- AR DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- 01S11W28DAC1Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- EAST END WATERPFAS · 2.1 mi
- SARDIS WATER ASSOCIATIONPFAS · 2.1 mi
- HERITAGE - CRYSTAL CLEAN LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- LILLY INDUSTRIES INCBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- LILLY INDUSTRIES INCToxics Release Inventory · 2.1 mi
- SOUTH ATLANTIC GALVANIZINGBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- OSWALD GENERATING STATIONBrownfields · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wrightsville'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 Wrightsville.
Total Sites
1,055
within ~10 miles of Wrightsville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wrightsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wrightsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wrightsville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Wrightsville — Toxics Release Inventory (69 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (675 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Wrightsville
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 Wrightsville average
Your land is one point inside Wrightsville
Everything above resolves to Wrightsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Wrightsville Average
Wrightsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Wrightsville
- ●One soil character for all of Wrightsville
- ●Frost dates read at Wrightsville's scale: Feb 27 to Nov 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wrightsville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wrightsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wrightsville, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wrightsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wrightsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wrightsville average
How we know this about Wrightsville
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 Wrightsville’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 Wrightsville
When does frost risk typically end in Wrightsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wrightsville typically lands around Feb 27, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Wrightsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wrightsville typically arrives around Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 13, so the watching starts about Oct 28 — about 273 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wrightsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wrightsville sees about 273 frost-free days — roughly Feb 27 through Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 20 to Nov 13, about 238 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wrightsville?
The federal record around Wrightsville is a meaningful one — 1,055 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (675), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Wrightsville?
From about Oct 28 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Wrightsville's scale — its 8a band and its 273-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wrightsville'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 Wrightsville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Wrightsville's own scale — its own ~273-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,361 acres it covers and 1,055 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wrightsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Wrightsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 27 and Nov 27 and the ~273-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,055 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wrightsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wrightsville's boundary and the 1,361 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~273-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Wrightsville 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 Wrightsville's 1,361 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pulaski County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pulaski 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 Pulaski County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wrightsville's 1,361 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wrightsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,361 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Wrightsville-wide figureread your own land →
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