Moro, AR 72108 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Moro, AR?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/18, about 202 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/11, about 237 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Moro, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Moro before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Moro's last frost
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Moro compares
At roughly 237 frost-free days, Moro places 9,174 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 133 of 687.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Moro can differ from the 72108 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8a and Moro's frost date answer different questions.