Delight, AR 71940 Frost Dates
Delight, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 209 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 Delight, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Delight's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Delight against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Delight places 15,416 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 551 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71940's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Delight's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Delight's dates instead of trusting one.