Norphlet, AR 71759 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Norphlet, AR, ZIP 71759
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/18, about 202 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/07, about 235 frost-free days later.
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 Norphlet, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Norphlet has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Norphlet's last frost
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Norphlet compares
At roughly 235 frost-free days, Norphlet places 9,638 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 146 of 687.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Norphlet's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Norphlet's dates instead of trusting one.