Fifty-Six, AR 72533 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Fifty-Six, AR, ZIP 72533
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/14, about 229 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 196 frost-free days later.
Fifty-Six 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Fifty-Six has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Fifty-Six's last frost
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/30 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/29 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Fifty-Six compares
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Fifty-Six places 19,104 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 638 of 687.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Fifty-Six can differ from the 72533 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Fifty-Six's frost date answer different questions.