Mount Ida, AR 71957 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Mount Ida, AR?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 213 frost-free days later.
Mount Ida 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Mount Ida before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Mount Ida's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Mount Ida compares
At roughly 213 frost-free days, Mount Ida places 14,522 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 501 of 687.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Mount Ida's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Mount Ida can differ from the 71957 normal.