Searcy, AR 72145 Frost Dates
Searcy, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/27, about 211 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 228 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 Searcy, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Searcy'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
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 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.
Searcy against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Searcy places 10,743 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 273 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72145's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Searcy's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Searcy's dates instead of trusting one.