Almyra, AR 72003 Frost Dates
72003, near Almyra, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 250 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 Almyra, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Almyra's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Almyra against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 250 frost-free days, Almyra places 7,595 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 7 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72003: local microclimates, on what one yard in Almyra can differ from the 72003 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Almyra's frost date answer different questions.