Mountain Pine, AR 71956 Frost Dates
71956, near Mountain Pine, AR: the frost window
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
Mountain Pine'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.
Why 04/03 isn't a guarantee
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 13,873 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 446 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71956: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mountain Pine's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mountain Pine can differ from the 71956 normal.