Goshen, AR 72735 Frost Dates
72735, near Goshen, AR: the frost window
Around 04/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 230 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 188 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 Goshen, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Goshen'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
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Goshen against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Goshen places 22,060 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 673 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72735: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7a and Goshen's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Goshen's dates instead of trusting one.