Mountain View, AR 72657 Frost Dates
Mountain View, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
Mountain View sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 9 weeks until Mountain View's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mountain View against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 211 frost-free days, Mountain View places 14,769 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 515 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72657's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Mountain View's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Mountain View can differ from the 72657 normal.