Heber Springs, AR 72581 Frost Dates
72581, near Heber Springs, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 222 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 Heber Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Heber Springs'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 Heber Springs's last frost
03/31 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 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Heber Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Heber Springs places 12,245 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 386 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72581: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Heber Springs's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Heber Springs's dates instead of trusting one.