Little Rock, AR 72221 Frost Dates
Little Rock, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/21, about 205 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 234 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 11 weeks until Little Rock'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
03/21 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
About 234 days separate Little Rock's last and first frost, putting it 9,686 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 173 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72221's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Little Rock's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Little Rock can differ from the 72221 normal.