Lafe, AR 72436 Frost Dates
72436, near Lafe, AR: the frost window
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 227 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 Lafe, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lafe'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.
The actual range around Lafe's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 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.
Lafe against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Lafe places 11,058 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 295 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72436: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lafe's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lafe can differ from the 72436 normal.