McCrory, AR 72101 Frost Dates
72101, near McCrory, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts McCrory 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
McCrory'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 McCrory's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
McCrory against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 227 frost-free days, McCrory places 11,030 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 289 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72101: the frost range, on how to read the range around McCrory's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in McCrory can differ from the 72101 normal.