Austin, AR 72007 Frost Dates
72007, near Austin, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 209 days after the last spring frost.
Austin sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Austin'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/04 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 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Austin against the rest of the dataset
Austin's growing season runs about 209 days, ranking 15,232 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 549 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72007: local microclimates, on what one yard in Austin can differ from the 72007 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Austin's frost date answer different questions.