Hot Springs, AR 71914 Frost Dates
Hot Springs, 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 11/13, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Hot Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Hot Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hot Springs's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hot Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 239 frost-free days, Hot Springs places 8,778 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 99 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71914's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Hot Springs's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Hot Springs can differ from the 71914 normal.