Menifee, AR 72107 Frost Dates
72107, near Menifee, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/02, roughly 217 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Menifee 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
Menifee's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Menifee against the rest of the dataset
About 215 days separate Menifee's last and first frost, putting it 14,185 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 474 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72107: the frost range, on how to read the range around Menifee's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Menifee can differ from the 72107 normal.