Gould, AR 71643 Frost Dates
Gould, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 03/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 196 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Gould, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Gould's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/12 isn't a guarantee
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gould against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 245 frost-free days, Gould places 8,060 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 56 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71643's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Gould's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Gould's dates instead of trusting one.