Lake Village, AR 71653 Frost Dates
71653, near Lake Village, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/13, about 197 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 247 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 Lake Village, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lake Village's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Lake Village's last frost
03/13 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 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lake Village against the rest of the dataset
About 247 days separate Lake Village's last and first frost, putting it 7,844 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 13 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71653: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lake Village's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake Village can differ from the 71653 normal.