Bono, AR 72416 Frost Dates
72416, near Bono, AR: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bono 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
Bono's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Bono's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bono against the rest of the dataset
About 215 days separate Bono's last and first frost, putting it 14,091 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 458 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72416: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bono can differ from the 72416 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Bono's frost date answer different questions.