Avoca, AR 72711 Frost Dates
72711, near Avoca, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/12, roughly 227 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 195 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7a (0 to 5°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 Avoca, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Avoca's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Avoca against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 195 frost-free days, Avoca places 19,332 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 649 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72711: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Avoca's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Avoca's dates instead of trusting one.