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Cedarville, AR 72952 Frost Dates

72952, near Cedarville, AR: the frost window

Zone 7b

Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. 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 Cedarville in Zone 7b (5 to 10°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

Cedarville'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 Cedarville'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.

Cedarville against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 201 frost-free days, Cedarville places 17,553 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 597 of 687.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 72952: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Cedarville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cedarville's dates instead of trusting one.