Diamond City, AR 72630 Frost Dates
Diamond City, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 189 days after the last spring frost.
Diamond City sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Diamond City's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Diamond City's last frost
04/15 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 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Diamond City against the rest of the dataset
Diamond City's growing season runs about 189 days, ranking 21,659 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 661 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72630's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Diamond City's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Diamond City can differ from the 72630 normal.