Pottsville, AR 72858 Frost Dates
72858, near Pottsville, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Pottsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pottsville'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 Pottsville's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pottsville against the rest of the dataset
About 219 days separate Pottsville's last and first frost, putting it 13,026 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 420 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72858: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pottsville can differ from the 72858 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Pottsville's frost date answer different questions.