Emmet, AR 71835 Frost Dates
71835, near Emmet, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Emmet in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Emmet'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 Emmet's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Emmet against the rest of the dataset
About 226 days separate Emmet's last and first frost, putting it 11,282 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 314 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71835: local microclimates, on what one yard in Emmet can differ from the 71835 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Emmet's frost date answer different questions.