Maumelle, AR 72223 Frost Dates
72223, near Maumelle, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 245 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 Maumelle, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Maumelle'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 Maumelle's last frost
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.
Maumelle against the rest of the dataset
Maumelle's growing season runs about 245 days, ranking 7,991 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 50 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72223: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Maumelle's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Maumelle's dates instead of trusting one.