Taylor, AR 71861 Frost Dates
71861, near Taylor, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/19, about 203 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 238 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 Taylor, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Taylor'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.
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.
Taylor against the rest of the dataset
About 238 days separate Taylor's last and first frost, putting it 9,018 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 113 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71861: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Taylor's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Taylor's dates instead of trusting one.