Eureka Springs, AR 72632 Frost Dates
72632, near Eureka Springs, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/18, about 233 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/22, roughly 185 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 Eureka Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Eureka Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Eureka Springs's last frost
04/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eureka Springs against the rest of the dataset
Eureka Springs's growing season runs about 185 days, ranking 23,183 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 684 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72632: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Eureka Springs's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Eureka Springs's dates instead of trusting one.