Cammack Village, AR 72212 Frost Dates
72212, near Cammack Village, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
Cammack Village 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
Cammack Village'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cammack Village against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 245 frost-free days, Cammack Village places 8,053 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 54 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72212: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Cammack Village's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cammack Village's dates instead of trusting one.