Plainview, AR 72857 Frost Dates
Plainview, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 03/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 206 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
Plainview sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
With roughly 11 weeks until Plainview's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Plainview's last frost
03/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Plainview against the rest of the dataset
About 233 days separate Plainview's last and first frost, putting it 9,966 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 199 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72857's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Plainview can differ from the 72857 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Plainview's frost date answer different questions.