North Little Rock, AR 72119 Frost Dates
North Little Rock, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until North Little Rock's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around North Little Rock'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.
North Little Rock against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 245 frost-free days, North Little Rock places 7,962 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 37 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72119's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in North Little Rock can differ from the 72119 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and North Little Rock's frost date answer different questions.