West Point, AR 72178 Frost Dates
Frost dates for West Point, AR, ZIP 72178
Around 03/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 211 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/08, about 228 frost-free days later.
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 West Point, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around West Point has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around West Point's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/05 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How West Point compares
About 228 days separate West Point's last and first frost, putting it 10,927 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 282 of 687.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around West Point's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in West Point can differ from the 72178 normal.