Marked Tree, AR 72365 Frost Dates
72365, near Marked Tree, 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.
Marked Tree 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
Marked Tree'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.
Marked Tree against the rest of the dataset
About 229 days separate Marked Tree's last and first frost, putting it 10,603 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 257 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72365: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Marked Tree's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Marked Tree's dates instead of trusting one.