Pineville, AR 72566 Frost Dates
Pineville, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 04/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 229 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 196 days after the last spring frost.
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 Pineville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Pineville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/14 isn't a guarantee
04/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/30 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pineville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 196 frost-free days, Pineville places 19,102 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 636 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72566's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pineville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pineville can differ from the 72566 normal.