Mountain Pine, AR 71903 Frost Dates
Mountain Pine, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 04/03 is the usual last spring frost, about 218 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Mountain Pine 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Mountain Pine'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
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mountain Pine against the rest of the dataset
About 216 days separate Mountain Pine's last and first frost, putting it 13,871 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 444 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71903's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Mountain Pine can differ from the 71903 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Mountain Pine's frost date answer different questions.