Gum Springs, AR 71721 Frost Dates
71721, near Gum Springs, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
Gum Springs sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Gum Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gum Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 225 frost-free days, Gum Springs places 11,515 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 323 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71721: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gum Springs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gum Springs can differ from the 71721 normal.