Maumelle, AR 72113 Frost Dates
Maumelle, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
Maumelle 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 11 weeks until Maumelle's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Maumelle's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Maumelle against the rest of the dataset
About 245 days separate Maumelle's last and first frost, putting it 7,989 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 48 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72113's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Maumelle's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Maumelle can differ from the 72113 normal.