Dardanelle, AR 72834 Frost Dates
72834, near Dardanelle, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dardanelle in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Dardanelle's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Dardanelle's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dardanelle against the rest of the dataset
About 215 days separate Dardanelle's last and first frost, putting it 14,083 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 456 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72834: the frost range, on how to read the range around Dardanelle's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Dardanelle can differ from the 72834 normal.