Peach Orchard, AR 72453 Frost Dates
72453, near Peach Orchard, 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 11/04, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
Peach Orchard 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
Peach Orchard'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 Peach Orchard's last frost
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.
Peach Orchard against the rest of the dataset
Peach Orchard's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,976 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 366 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72453: the frost range, on how to read the range around Peach Orchard's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Peach Orchard can differ from the 72453 normal.