Tupelo, AR 72169 Frost Dates
Tupelo, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 227 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 Tupelo, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Tupelo'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
03/23 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 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tupelo against the rest of the dataset
About 227 days separate Tupelo's last and first frost, putting it 11,083 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 301 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72169's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Tupelo's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Tupelo's dates instead of trusting one.