Stuttgart, AR 72160 Frost Dates
Stuttgart, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 03/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 195 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
Stuttgart sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Stuttgart'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
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stuttgart against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 250 frost-free days, Stuttgart places 7,520 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 4 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72160's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Stuttgart's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Stuttgart's dates instead of trusting one.