Prairie Grove, AR 72753 Frost Dates
72753, near Prairie Grove, 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.
Prairie Grove 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
Prairie Grove'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.
The actual range around Prairie Grove's last frost
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.
Prairie Grove against the rest of the dataset
Prairie Grove's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 21,950 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 671 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72753: the frost range, on how to read the range around Prairie Grove's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Prairie Grove can differ from the 72753 normal.