Batesville, AR 72501 Frost Dates
72501, near Batesville, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 221 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 Batesville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Batesville'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.
Why 03/30 isn't a guarantee
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Batesville against the rest of the dataset
About 221 days separate Batesville's last and first frost, putting it 12,476 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 404 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72501: local microclimates, on what one yard in Batesville can differ from the 72501 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Batesville's frost date answer different questions.