Augusta, AR 72006 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Augusta, AR, ZIP 72006
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/27, roughly 211 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/08, about 228 frost-free days later.
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 Augusta, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Augusta has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Augusta compares
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Augusta places 10,856 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 276 of 687.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Augusta's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Augusta's dates instead of trusting one.