Alum Fork, AR Climate: Temperature & Rain by Month
Temperature and precipitation from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →, plus PlainClimate's derived comfort score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Alum Fork's primary NOAA station, ALUM FK.
The climate verdict for Alum Fork
Water is the standout signal in Alum Fork, Arkansas: 58.4 inches of precipitation in a normal year. Against that wet profile, NOAA records an annual average of 60°F. Its climate comfort score of 73/100 (good) lands mid-pack nationally, exceeding 66% of station-mapped location scores.
- 60°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 73/100
- comfort score, above 66% of station-mapped location scores
- 58.4"
- annual precipitation · 3" snow
- 225 days
- growing season, frost-free days
Alum Fork: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00030130 · Alum Fork, AR 60°F mean · 58.4" precip
TEMP-MILD · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-WET · SWING-MID · COMF-MID · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-FULL
- TEMP-MILD 60°F
- RANK-UPPER #5,146
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ McLean
- PRCP-WET 58.4"
- SWING-MID 41°F
- COMF-MID 73/100
- LOAD-HEAT 3,494 HDD
- STN-1 USC00030130
- BOOK-FULL 6/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: McLean, TX (+ 0 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every AR station list.
- Alum Fork (this station) 60°F
- Cold Hickory Flat, MS 60°F
- Hot Independence, MS 60°F
- Near McLean, TX 60°F
- Near Ashland, MS 60°F
Climate Living Index · Alum Fork
Alum Fork: 66/100 · grade C
Alum Fork publishes 5 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 1 missing weight rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Alum Fork, not an official NOAA rating. Rankings still use Comfort Score 73/100 (separate formula). Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Frost-free season | 225 days/year | 79/100 · B |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 92 calendar days | 78/100 · B |
| Annual temperature balance | 59.9°F · 7.6° from 67.5°F | 76/100 · B |
| Snowfall burden | 2.9 inches/year | 74/100 · B |
| Precipitation balance | 58.4 in · 23.4 from 35 in | 17/100 · F |
Alum Fork · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method · Comfort Score method.
Alum Fork is a temperate Köppen climate: Cfa
Coldest-month mean 39.0°F and warmest-month mean 79.7°F place this station in temperate, no dry season, hot summer climates (Cfa). Class Cfa is the Peel et al. (2007) label for this station's monthly mean temperature and precipitation normals: temperate, specifically temperate, no dry season, hot summer.
- Köppen code
- Cfa
- Group
- Temperate
- Warmest month
- 79.7°F
- Coldest month
- 39.0°F
Source: official public datasets monthly normals (1991–2020) at the city’s primary station. This is a station classification, not a mapped regional consensus.
National standing · heating-led station
Where Alum Fork sits across the climate record
Three NOAA fields for Alum Fork's primary station, temperature, precipitation, and seasonal swing, are ranked against every station-mapped normal that carries the same field.
- Annual temperature
- Top 25% warmest
- Among 6,861 stations, Alum Fork sits in the warmer third of annual means.
- Annual precipitation
- Top 7% wettest
- Alum Fork's annual total ranks in the wetter third of 6,352 measured normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- 39th percentile swing
- Typical seasonal amplitude versus 6,861 complete station-years.
How Alum Fork compares across U.S. station-mapped locations
Alum Fork's comfort score vs. all station-mapped locations
PlainClimate composite comfort index (1–100), NOAA 1991–2020 normals
73 Top 34% score exceeds 66% of 6,189 station-mapped location scores
- 0–10: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 10–20: 0 station-mapped locations (0%). Below this entry.
- 20–30: 96 station-mapped locations (2%). Below this entry.
- 30–40: 280 station-mapped locations (5%). Below this entry.
- 40–50: 1,113 station-mapped locations (18%). Below this entry.
- 50–60: 1,329 station-mapped locations (21%). Below this entry.
- 60–70: 1,236 station-mapped locations (20%). Below this entry.
- 70–80: 650 station-mapped locations (11%). This entry sits in this band.
- 80–90: 921 station-mapped locations (15%). Above this entry.
- 90–100: 564 station-mapped locations (9%). Above this entry.
Source NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, PlainClimate comfort index · 1991–2020
Alum Fork's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 69 complete annual observations from 1940 to 2021, ALUM FK changed little at a fitted rate of 0.01°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Alum Fork primary station fitted change -0.01 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Snow | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 49°F (10°C) | 29°F (-2°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 3.9" | 0.9" | 20.3 | 0.0 |
| February | 54°F (12°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 43°F (6°C) | 4.6" | 1.4" | 15.5 | 0.0 |
| March | 62°F (17°C) | 40°F (4°C) | 51°F (10°C) | 5.4" | 0.3" | 6.9 | 0.0 |
| April | 71°F (22°C) | 48°F (9°C) | 60°F (15°C) | 5.8" | 0.0" | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| May | 78°F (25°C) | 58°F (15°C) | 68°F (20°C) | 5.8" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| June | 85°F (30°C) | 66°F (19°C) | 76°F (24°C) | 4.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 7.7 |
| July | 90°F (32°C) | 70°F (21°C) | 80°F (27°C) | 4.4" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 17.2 |
| August | 90°F (32°C) | 69°F (20°C) | 79°F (26°C) | 3.9" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 17.3 |
| September | 83°F (28°C) | 62°F (16°C) | 72°F (22°C) | 4.5" | 0.0" | 0.0 | 6.5 |
| October | 73°F (23°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 4.8" | 0.0" | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| November | 61°F (16°C) | 39°F (4°C) | 50°F (10°C) | 5.6" | 0.0" | 7.5 | 0.0 |
| December | 51°F (11°C) | 32°F (0°C) | 41°F (5°C) | 5.3" | 0.3" | 17.9 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Alum Fork works both ends of the calendar. Normal highs climb to 91°F by July 29 and hold at or above 90°F on 26 dates, then normal lows drop to freezing or below on 66 dates, bottoming at 29°F around January 17.
When the heat sits
Normal highs reach 90°F from July 21 through August 15, covering 26 dates. The broader mild season, normal highs of 70°F or more, runs April 11 to October 23.
This counts calendar dates whose 1991–2020 normal high reaches 90°F. It is a smaller number than the 90°F+ day counts in the monthly table above, which measure how often the threshold was actually crossed in a typical year. A date can average 88°F and still exceed 90°F in half of all years.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into February 17, then returns to freezing around December 14, covering 66 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
Where the wet dates fall
The likeliest wet date is May 11, when 36% of years recorded at least a hundredth of an inch. The driest is September 28 at 24%. Summed across the calendar, that is about 113 wet dates a year.
The widest day
April 4 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 24°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Alum Fork.
Where Alum Fork Stands Nationally
This is one of the wettest normals climates ranked: about 58 inches of precipitation in a normal year, a total fewer than one station in ten surpasses.
Alum Fork earns one nationally notable standing (outer quintile) against 6,860 NOAA 1991–2020 normals stations, middle-of-the-pack metrics stay silent here.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall and snowfall
Snow: 0.9"
9.6 days with precipitation
Snow: 1.4"
9.2 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
10.8 days with precipitation
9.8 days with precipitation
11.3 days with precipitation
8.4 days with precipitation
10.2 days with precipitation
8.5 days with precipitation
7.3 days with precipitation
8.4 days with precipitation
9.5 days with precipitation
Snow: 0.3"
9.8 days with precipitation
Alum Fork spreads its precipitation across the year
Neither half of the year dominates here: June through August take 22% of the annual total and December through February 24%, with neither reaching the 35% that would mark a distinct wet season. Alum Fork has no dry season to plan around, though it does carry a 40.7°F seasonal spread.
The gap between the wettest and driest month still matters: April averages 5.8" and August 3.9". The three wettest months together take 29% of the year, against the 25% a perfectly flat distribution would give them.
Shares are computed from this station's own 1991-2020 monthly precipitation normals. "Spread across the year" means neither the June-August nor the December-February share reaches 35%; it describes an average year, not the variability of any single one.
When it rains in Alum Fork, it arrives in quantity
58.4" of precipitation falls across only about 113 wet days here, averaging 0.52 inches each. Fewer days carry more water: the year's total is delivered in comparatively heavy events rather than persistent damp.
- Days with measurable precipitation
- about 113 a year, 31% of all days
- Average depth per wet day
- 0.52 inches
- Most wet days
- May, about 11
- Fewest wet days
- September, about 7
A wet day is one recording at least 0.01 inches. These are 1991-2020 normals: they describe an average year, and a per-day average is not a forecast of any individual storm.
Snow reaches Alum Fork, but rarely amounts to much
The normals record 2.9 inches of snow a year here, most likely in February. That is a real but marginal amount: enough that snow is part of the local record, not enough to define the winter.
A figure in this range usually reflects a handful of events that melt quickly rather than a season of accumulation; about 2 days a year record any measurable snow at all.
NOAA 1991-2020 normals. An average across thirty years can smooth away a single heavy winter, so a small annual figure does not mean a significant snowfall is impossible.
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
November 8
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
March 28
50% probability date
Growing Season
225 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
3,494
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
1,687
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside AR closest to Alum Fork on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (60°F here).
- Barnsdall, OK 60°F · 0.0°F off
- Cullman, AL 60°F · 0.0°F off
- Fairview, OK 60°F · 0.0°F off
- Gainesville, GA 60°F · 0.0°F off
Closest by annual precipitation
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual precipitation (58.4" here), excluding temperature-peer places.
- Bastrop, LA 58.4" · 0.0" off
- Vernon, AL 58.5" · 0.0" off
- Packwood, WA 58.4" · 0.1" off
- Summerville, GA 58.3" · 0.1" off
Data-derived climate profile
How Alum Fork's climate pattern fits together
heating led · wet · mid swing
Alum Fork's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 3,494 annual heating degree days against 1,687 for cooling. Its 40.7°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Alum Fork's frost-free season lasts about 225 days, a middle-length window whose endpoints matter more than the annual average. It describes freeze probability, not year-specific planting conditions.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Alum Fork's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 40.7°F. The annual average is 60°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
Alongside its heating load, Alum Fork carries 58.4 inches of precipitation in a normal year, inside PlainClimate's wet range. Annual snowfall totals 2.9 inches. That distinction matters because a wet annual total can arrive as rain, snow, or a mixture at different times.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Alum Fork's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Alum Fork, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Alum Fork's primary station: ALUM FK (USC00030130). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The conservative exact name-and-state crosswalk finds no Census place match, so PlainClimate treats this as a station-mapped location and does not claim it is a municipality. No exact Gazetteer row for Alum Fork; facility counts that depend on place identity are therefore an upper bound, not a municipal census.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Alum Fork comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.