Osceola, AR 72391 Frost Dates
72391, near Osceola, AR: the frost window
Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 229 days after the last spring frost.
Osceola 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
Osceola'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 Osceola's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 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.
Osceola against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 229 frost-free days, Osceola places 10,570 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 255 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72391: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Osceola's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Osceola's dates instead of trusting one.