Mineral Springs, AR 71851 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Mineral Springs, AR?
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 227 frost-free days later.
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 Mineral Springs, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Mineral Springs before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Mineral Springs's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Mineral Springs compares
About 227 days separate Mineral Springs's last and first frost, putting it 11,042 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 292 of 687.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Mineral Springs can differ from the 71851 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8a and Mineral Springs's frost date answer different questions.