Bearden, AR 71720 Frost Dates
Bearden, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/21, about 205 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Bearden, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Bearden's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bearden against the rest of the dataset
About 230 days separate Bearden's last and first frost, putting it 10,454 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 236 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71720's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Bearden's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Bearden's dates instead of trusting one.