Texarkana, AR 71854 Frost Dates
Texarkana, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 03/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 197 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 246 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Texarkana in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Texarkana's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Texarkana's last frost
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Texarkana against the rest of the dataset
About 246 days separate Texarkana's last and first frost, putting it 7,916 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 25 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71854's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Texarkana's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Texarkana can differ from the 71854 normal.