Joiner, AR 72338 Frost Dates
72338, near Joiner, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 229 days after the last spring frost.
Joiner 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
Joiner's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Joiner's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Joiner against the rest of the dataset
About 229 days separate Joiner's last and first frost, putting it 10,648 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 267 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72338: the frost range, on how to read the range around Joiner's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Joiner can differ from the 72338 normal.