Plumerville, AR 72127 Frost Dates
72127, near Plumerville, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 215 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 Plumerville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Plumerville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Plumerville's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Plumerville against the rest of the dataset
Plumerville's growing season runs about 215 days, ranking 14,160 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 467 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72127: local microclimates, on what one yard in Plumerville can differ from the 72127 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Plumerville's frost date answer different questions.