England, AR 72046 Frost Dates
72046, near England, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/21, roughly 205 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts England in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
England's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
England against the rest of the dataset
England's growing season runs about 235 days, ranking 9,612 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 141 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72046: local microclimates, on what one yard in England can differ from the 72046 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and England's frost date answer different questions.