Lake View, AR 72369 Frost Dates
72369, near Lake View, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/15, about 199 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 246 days after the last spring frost.
Lake View 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
Lake View'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 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.
Lake View against the rest of the dataset
Lake View's growing season runs about 246 days, ranking 7,944 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 31 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72369: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Lake View's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lake View's dates instead of trusting one.