Imboden, AR 72434 Frost Dates
72434, near Imboden, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
Imboden sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Imboden'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 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.
Imboden against the rest of the dataset
Imboden's growing season runs about 214 days, ranking 14,333 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 489 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72434: the frost range, on how to read the range around Imboden's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Imboden can differ from the 72434 normal.