Almyra, AR 72038 Frost Dates
Almyra, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/11, about 195 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
Almyra sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 12 weeks until Almyra's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Almyra's last frost
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
Almyra's growing season runs about 250 days, ranking 7,596 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 8 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72038's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Almyra can differ from the 72038 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Almyra's frost date answer different questions.