Pleasant Plains, AR 72568 Frost Dates
72568, near Pleasant Plains, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/30, about 214 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pleasant Plains's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Pleasant Plains's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pleasant Plains against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Pleasant Plains places 12,585 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 411 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72568: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Pleasant Plains's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pleasant Plains's dates instead of trusting one.