Little Rock, AR 72210 Frost Dates
Little Rock, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 229 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 Little Rock, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Little Rock's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Little Rock's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Little Rock against the rest of the dataset
Little Rock's growing season runs about 229 days, ranking 10,540 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 244 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72210's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Little Rock can differ from the 72210 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Little Rock's frost date answer different questions.