Bull Shoals, AR 72661 Frost Dates
Bull Shoals, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 212 days after the last spring frost.
Bull Shoals 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 9 weeks until Bull Shoals's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bull Shoals's last frost
04/02 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 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bull Shoals against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 212 frost-free days, Bull Shoals places 14,620 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 506 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72661's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bull Shoals's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bull Shoals can differ from the 72661 normal.