Bay, AR 72411 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Bay, AR, ZIP 72411
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 230 frost-free days later.
Bay 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Bay has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bay compares
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Bay places 10,424 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 234 of 687.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Bay's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Bay's dates instead of trusting one.