Cherry Valley, AR 72387 Frost Dates
72387, near Cherry Valley, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Cherry Valley 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
Cherry Valley'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 Cherry Valley's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cherry Valley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 231 frost-free days, Cherry Valley places 10,247 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 217 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72387: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Cherry Valley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cherry Valley's dates instead of trusting one.