Pineville, AR 72528 Frost Dates
72528, near Pineville, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/14, roughly 229 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
Pineville sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Pineville'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 Pineville's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 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.
Pineville against the rest of the dataset
About 196 days separate Pineville's last and first frost, putting it 19,101 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 635 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72528: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pineville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pineville can differ from the 72528 normal.