Perryville, AR 72126 Frost Dates
Perryville, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 226 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 Perryville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Perryville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Perryville against the rest of the dataset
Perryville's growing season runs about 226 days, ranking 11,227 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 308 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72126's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Perryville can differ from the 72126 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Perryville's frost date answer different questions.