Pine Bluff, AR 71611 Frost Dates
Pine Bluff, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
Pine Bluff sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Pine Bluff's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pine Bluff's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pine Bluff against the rest of the dataset
Pine Bluff's growing season runs about 245 days, ranking 7,972 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 43 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71611's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pine Bluff's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pine Bluff can differ from the 71611 normal.