Dyer, AR 72935 Frost Dates
72935, near Dyer, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dyer 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
Dyer'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 Dyer's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dyer against the rest of the dataset
About 201 days separate Dyer's last and first frost, putting it 17,605 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 600 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72935: the frost range, on how to read the range around Dyer's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Dyer can differ from the 72935 normal.