Fountain Lake, AR 72122 Frost Dates
72122, near Fountain Lake, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fountain Lake in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fountain Lake'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.
The actual range around Fountain Lake's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fountain Lake against the rest of the dataset
About 226 days separate Fountain Lake's last and first frost, putting it 11,275 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 312 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72122: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Fountain Lake's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Fountain Lake's dates instead of trusting one.