McNeil, AR 71752 Frost Dates
McNeil, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 McNeil, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until McNeil's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around McNeil's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
McNeil against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 218 frost-free days, McNeil places 13,336 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 440 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71752's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around McNeil's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in McNeil can differ from the 71752 normal.