Twin Groves, AR 72039 Frost Dates
Twin Groves, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
Twin Groves 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Twin Groves's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Twin Groves's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Twin Groves against the rest of the dataset
About 215 days separate Twin Groves's last and first frost, putting it 14,184 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 473 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72039's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Twin Groves can differ from the 72039 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Twin Groves's frost date answer different questions.