Redfield, AR 72079 Frost Dates
72079, near Redfield, AR: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
Redfield 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
Redfield'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.
The actual range around Redfield's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Redfield against the rest of the dataset
About 218 days separate Redfield's last and first frost, putting it 13,295 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 436 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72079: local microclimates, on what one yard in Redfield can differ from the 72079 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Redfield's frost date answer different questions.