Crawfordsville, AR 72327 Frost Dates
72327, near Crawfordsville, 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 11/11, roughly 242 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Crawfordsville in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Crawfordsville'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 Crawfordsville's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Crawfordsville against the rest of the dataset
About 242 days separate Crawfordsville's last and first frost, putting it 8,400 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 72 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72327: local microclimates, on what one yard in Crawfordsville can differ from the 72327 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Crawfordsville's frost date answer different questions.