Camden, AR 71711 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Camden, AR?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/21, roughly 205 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/06, about 230 frost-free days later.
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 Camden, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 10 weeks of growing season left in Camden before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Camden's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/02 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Camden compares
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Camden places 10,363 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 230 of 687.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Camden's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Camden can differ from the 71711 normal.