Hoxie, AR 72433 Frost Dates
72433, near Hoxie, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/27, roughly 211 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Hoxie, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Hoxie's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hoxie against the rest of the dataset
Hoxie's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,890 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 344 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72433: the frost range, on how to read the range around Hoxie's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Hoxie can differ from the 72433 normal.