Biggers, AR 72413 Frost Dates
Biggers, AR: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 214 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Biggers, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Biggers's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Biggers against the rest of the dataset
About 214 days separate Biggers's last and first frost, putting it 14,365 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 494 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72413's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Biggers's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Biggers can differ from the 72413 normal.