Little Rock, AR 72124 Frost Dates
72124, near Little Rock, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/21, roughly 205 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 234 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 Little Rock, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Little Rock's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Little Rock against the rest of the dataset
About 234 days separate Little Rock's last and first frost, putting it 9,679 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 166 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72124: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Little Rock's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Little Rock's dates instead of trusting one.