Kingsland, AR 71652 Frost Dates
71652, near Kingsland, AR: the frost window
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Kingsland sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Kingsland's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kingsland against the rest of the dataset
About 226 days separate Kingsland's last and first frost, putting it 11,290 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 315 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71652: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Kingsland's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Kingsland's dates instead of trusting one.