Fifty-Six, AR 72051 Frost Dates
Fifty-Six, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
Fifty-Six sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 9 weeks until Fifty-Six'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
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 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.
Fifty-Six against the rest of the dataset
Fifty-Six's growing season runs about 211 days, ranking 14,897 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 525 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72051's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Fifty-Six's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Fifty-Six's dates instead of trusting one.