Ash Flat, AR 72513 Frost Dates
72513, near Ash Flat, AR: the frost window
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Ash Flat sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
Ash Flat'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 Ash Flat's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ash Flat against the rest of the dataset
About 210 days separate Ash Flat's last and first frost, putting it 15,039 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 535 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72513: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ash Flat's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ash Flat can differ from the 72513 normal.