Little Rock, AR 72209 Frost Dates
72209, near Little Rock, AR: the frost window
Around 03/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 205 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
Little Rock sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Little Rock's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Little Rock's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Little Rock against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 234 frost-free days, Little Rock places 9,682 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 169 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72209: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Little Rock's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Little Rock's dates instead of trusting one.