McRae, AR 72102 Frost Dates
McRae, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 03/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 211 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
McRae 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
With roughly 10 weeks until McRae's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around McRae's last frost
03/27 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 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
McRae against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, McRae places 10,892 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 279 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72102's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and McRae's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around McRae's dates instead of trusting one.