Pangburn, AR 72121 Frost Dates
Pangburn, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 222 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 Pangburn, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Pangburn's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/31 isn't a guarantee
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pangburn against the rest of the dataset
About 222 days separate Pangburn's last and first frost, putting it 12,328 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 395 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72121's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Pangburn's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pangburn's dates instead of trusting one.