Booneville, AR 72927 Frost Dates
Booneville, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/08, about 223 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 203 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 Booneville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Booneville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Booneville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Booneville places 16,918 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 582 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72927's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Booneville can differ from the 72927 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Booneville's frost date answer different questions.