Wilson, AR 72395 Frost Dates
72395, near Wilson, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 229 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wilson in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wilson'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.
Wilson against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 229 frost-free days, Wilson places 10,640 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 262 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72395: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wilson's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wilson can differ from the 72395 normal.