Cherokee Village, AR 72529 Frost Dates
Cherokee Village, AR: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cherokee Village in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 15,007 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 533 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72529'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.