Clarksville, AR 72854 Frost Dates
72854, near Clarksville, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 232 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 Clarksville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Clarksville's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Clarksville's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clarksville against the rest of the dataset
About 232 days separate Clarksville's last and first frost, putting it 10,037 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 207 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72854: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Clarksville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Clarksville's dates instead of trusting one.