Turrell, AR 72384 Frost Dates
72384, near Turrell, AR: the frost window
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 242 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 Turrell, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Turrell'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.
The actual range around Turrell's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 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.
Turrell against the rest of the dataset
Turrell's growing season runs about 242 days, ranking 8,398 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 71 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72384: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Turrell's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Turrell's dates instead of trusting one.