Mountain Home, AR 72653 Frost Dates
72653, near Mountain Home, AR: the frost window
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
Mountain Home 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
Mountain Home's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/31 isn't a guarantee
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mountain Home against the rest of the dataset
About 214 days separate Mountain Home's last and first frost, putting it 14,233 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 487 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72653: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mountain Home's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mountain Home can differ from the 72653 normal.