Damascus, AR 72013 Frost Dates
Damascus, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
Damascus sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
With roughly 10 weeks until Damascus's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/31 isn't a guarantee
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Damascus against the rest of the dataset
About 222 days separate Damascus's last and first frost, putting it 12,338 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 398 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72013's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Damascus's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Damascus's dates instead of trusting one.