Mountain View, AR 72560 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Mountain View, AR, ZIP 72560
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 211 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Mountain View, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Mountain View 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 Mountain View's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Mountain View compares
About 211 days separate Mountain View's last and first frost, putting it 14,768 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 514 of 687.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Mountain View's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Mountain View can differ from the 72560 normal.