Corning, AR 72422 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Corning, AR, ZIP 72422
Around 03/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 211 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/04, about 224 frost-free days later.
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 Corning, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Corning 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.
The actual range around Corning's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Corning compares
About 224 days separate Corning's last and first frost, putting it 11,872 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 341 of 687.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Corning's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Corning's dates instead of trusting one.