Daisy, AR 71950 Frost Dates
71950, near Daisy, AR: the frost window
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. 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 Daisy, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Daisy's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Daisy's last frost
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.
Daisy against the rest of the dataset
About 209 days separate Daisy's last and first frost, putting it 15,446 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 555 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71950: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Daisy's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Daisy's dates instead of trusting one.