North Little Rock, AR 72114 Frost Dates
Frost dates for North Little Rock, AR, ZIP 72114
Around 03/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 205 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/10, about 234 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 North Little Rock, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around North Little Rock has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around North Little Rock's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/02 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 North Little Rock compares
About 234 days separate North Little Rock's last and first frost, putting it 9,691 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 178 of 687.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in North Little Rock can differ from the 72114 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and North Little Rock's frost date answer different questions.