Palestine, AR 72372 Frost Dates
72372, near Palestine, AR: the frost window
Around 03/18 is the usual last spring frost, about 202 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 237 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Palestine, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Palestine'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Palestine against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 237 frost-free days, Palestine places 9,151 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 130 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72372: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Palestine's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Palestine's dates instead of trusting one.