Cherokee Village, AR 72525 Frost Dates
Cherokee Village, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 210 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 Cherokee Village, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Cherokee Village's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
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.
Cherokee Village against the rest of the dataset
Cherokee Village's growing season runs about 210 days, ranking 15,006 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 532 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72525's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Cherokee Village's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Cherokee Village's dates instead of trusting one.