Fourche, AR 72135 Frost Dates
Fourche, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
Fourche 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 9 weeks until Fourche's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fourche's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fourche against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 215 frost-free days, Fourche places 14,208 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 485 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72135's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Fourche's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Fourche can differ from the 72135 normal.