Griffithville, AR 72060 Frost Dates
72060, near Griffithville, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 247 days after the last spring frost.
Griffithville 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
Griffithville's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/11 isn't a guarantee
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Griffithville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 247 frost-free days, Griffithville places 7,896 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 23 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72060: the frost range, on how to read the range around Griffithville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Griffithville can differ from the 72060 normal.