Briarcliff, AR 72544 Frost Dates
Briarcliff, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Briarcliff, not a forecast for this year.
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
At roughly 214 frost-free days, Briarcliff places 14,371 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 496 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72544's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Briarcliff can differ from the 72544 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Briarcliff's frost date answer different questions.