Cove, AR 74963 Frost Dates
74963, near Cove, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 201 days after the last spring frost.
Cove sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cove'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 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.
Cove against the rest of the dataset
About 201 days separate Cove's last and first frost, putting it 17,651 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 606 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 74963: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cove can differ from the 74963 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Cove's frost date answer different questions.