Ashdown, AR 71822 Frost Dates
71822, near Ashdown, AR: the frost window
Around 03/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 208 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 233 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 Ashdown, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ashdown's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Ashdown's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ashdown against the rest of the dataset
About 233 days separate Ashdown's last and first frost, putting it 9,898 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 193 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71822: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Ashdown's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Ashdown's dates instead of trusting one.