Pollard, AR 72456 Frost Dates
Pollard, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/27, about 211 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Pollard, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Pollard's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pollard's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pollard against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 224 frost-free days, Pollard places 11,965 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 359 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72456's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pollard can differ from the 72456 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Pollard's frost date answer different questions.