Pleasant Plains, AR 72534 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pleasant Plains, AR, ZIP 72534
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 221 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pleasant Plains in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Pleasant Plains has about 10 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 Pleasant Plains's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pleasant Plains compares
About 221 days separate Pleasant Plains's last and first frost, putting it 12,584 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 410 of 687.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Pleasant Plains's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Pleasant Plains's dates instead of trusting one.