Hector, AR 72080 Frost Dates
72080, near Hector, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
Hector sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Hector's growing season runs out in roughly 8 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 Hector's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hector against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 197 frost-free days, Hector places 18,804 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 626 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72080: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Hector's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hector's dates instead of trusting one.