Western Grove, AR 72685 Frost Dates
Western Grove, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/22, roughly 206 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Western Grove, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Western Grove's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Western Grove's last frost
03/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Western Grove against the rest of the dataset
Western Grove's growing season runs about 231 days, ranking 10,269 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 222 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72685's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Western Grove's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Western Grove's dates instead of trusting one.