Luxora, AR 72358 Frost Dates
Luxora, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/18, roughly 202 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 240 days after the last spring frost.
Luxora 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Luxora's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/18 isn't a guarantee
03/18 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 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Luxora against the rest of the dataset
About 240 days separate Luxora's last and first frost, putting it 8,710 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 90 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72358's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Luxora's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Luxora can differ from the 72358 normal.