Briarcliff, AR 72531 Frost Dates
Briarcliff, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
Briarcliff 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Briarcliff's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Briarcliff's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Briarcliff against the rest of the dataset
Briarcliff's growing season runs about 214 days, ranking 14,370 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 495 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72531's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Briarcliff can differ from the 72531 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Briarcliff's frost date answer different questions.