Diamond City, AR 65733 Frost Dates
65733, near Diamond City, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Diamond City in Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Diamond City's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Diamond City against the rest of the dataset
About 189 days separate Diamond City's last and first frost, putting it 21,658 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 660 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 65733: the frost range, on how to read the range around Diamond City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Diamond City can differ from the 65733 normal.