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Delaplaine, AR 72425 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Delaplaine, AR, ZIP 72425

Zone 7b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 214 frost-free days later.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Delaplaine in Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 7b around Delaplaine has about 9 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 Delaplaine's last frost

03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Delaplaine compares

At roughly 214 frost-free days, Delaplaine places 14,396 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 499 of 687.

Learn more

the frost range explains how to read the range around Delaplaine's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Delaplaine can differ from the 72425 normal.