Bluff City, AR 71722 Frost Dates
71722, near Bluff City, AR: the frost window
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
Bluff City 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
Bluff City'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.
The actual range around Bluff City's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bluff City against the rest of the dataset
Bluff City's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,973 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 363 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71722: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Bluff City's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bluff City's dates instead of trusting one.