Gum Springs, AR 71998 Frost Dates
Gum Springs, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
Gum Springs 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 Gum Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Gum Springs's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gum Springs against the rest of the dataset
Gum Springs's growing season runs about 225 days, ranking 11,518 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 326 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71998's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Gum Springs can differ from the 71998 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Gum Springs's frost date answer different questions.