Greenway, AR 72430 Frost Dates
Greenway, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
Greenway sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Greenway's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/31 isn't a guarantee
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 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Greenway against the rest of the dataset
About 215 days separate Greenway's last and first frost, putting it 14,200 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 481 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72430's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Greenway's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Greenway can differ from the 72430 normal.