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Berryville, AR 72616 Frost Dates

Berryville, AR: when does the frost end?

Zone 7a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 210 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 Berryville, not a forecast for this year.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 9 weeks until Berryville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Berryville's last frost

04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Berryville against the rest of the dataset

Berryville's growing season runs about 210 days, ranking 15,003 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 531 of 687.

Learn more

Before leaning on 72616's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Berryville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Berryville's dates instead of trusting one.