Van Buren, AR 72957 Frost Dates
Van Buren, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/25, roughly 209 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 224 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 Van Buren, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Van Buren's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Van Buren's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Van Buren against the rest of the dataset
About 224 days separate Van Buren's last and first frost, putting it 11,751 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 330 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72957's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Van Buren's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Van Buren can differ from the 72957 normal.