Hermitage, AR 71651 Frost Dates
Hermitage, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/18, about 202 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Hermitage sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
With roughly 10 weeks until Hermitage's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hermitage against the rest of the dataset
About 235 days separate Hermitage's last and first frost, putting it 9,646 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 149 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71651's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hermitage can differ from the 71651 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Hermitage's frost date answer different questions.