Stamps, AR 71860 Frost Dates
Stamps, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/19, roughly 203 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 238 days after the last spring frost.
Stamps sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Stamps's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/19 isn't a guarantee
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stamps against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 238 frost-free days, Stamps places 9,000 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 108 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71860's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Stamps can differ from the 71860 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Stamps's frost date answer different questions.