Daisy, AR 71952 Frost Dates
Daisy, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Daisy in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Daisy's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Daisy's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Daisy against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 235 frost-free days, Daisy places 9,672 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 159 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71952's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Daisy can differ from the 71952 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Daisy's frost date answer different questions.