Jacksonport, AR 72075 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Jacksonport, AR, ZIP 72075
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/18, about 202 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/11, about 240 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 Jacksonport, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Jacksonport 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.
Why 03/18 isn't a guarantee
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Jacksonport compares
At roughly 240 frost-free days, Jacksonport places 8,726 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 96 of 687.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Jacksonport can differ from the 72075 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Jacksonport's frost date answer different questions.