Salesville, AR 72659 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Salesville, AR, ZIP 72659
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 214 frost-free days later.
Salesville 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7a around Salesville has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Salesville's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Salesville compares
At roughly 214 frost-free days, Salesville places 14,341 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 491 of 687.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Salesville can differ from the 72659 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7a and Salesville's frost date answer different questions.