Lepanto, AR 72354 Frost Dates
72354, near Lepanto, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 229 days after the last spring frost.
Lepanto 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
Lepanto'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Lepanto against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 229 frost-free days, Lepanto places 10,611 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 258 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72354: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lepanto can differ from the 72354 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Lepanto's frost date answer different questions.