North Little Rock, AR 72019 Frost Dates
Frost dates for North Little Rock, AR, ZIP 72019
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/16, about 245 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 North Little Rock, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around North Little Rock has about 11 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.
The actual range around North Little Rock's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How North Little Rock compares
North Little Rock's growing season runs about 245 days, ranking 7,960 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 35 of 687.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and North Little Rock's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around North Little Rock's dates instead of trusting one.