De Valls Bluff, AR 72041 Frost Dates
72041, near De Valls Bluff, AR: the frost window
Around 03/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 195 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 247 days after the last spring frost.
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 De Valls Bluff, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
De Valls Bluff's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around De Valls Bluff's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
De Valls Bluff against the rest of the dataset
About 247 days separate De Valls Bluff's last and first frost, putting it 7,874 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 17 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72041: the frost range, on how to read the range around De Valls Bluff's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in De Valls Bluff can differ from the 72041 normal.