Cave City, AR 72521 Frost Dates
Cave City, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/20, roughly 190 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 Cave City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Cave City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cave City's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cave City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 190 frost-free days, Cave City places 21,195 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 652 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72521's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cave City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cave City can differ from the 72521 normal.