Waldenburg, AR 72475 Frost Dates
72475, near Waldenburg, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 227 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 Waldenburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Waldenburg'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 Waldenburg's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Waldenburg against the rest of the dataset
Waldenburg's growing season runs about 227 days, ranking 11,088 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 304 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72475: local microclimates, on what one yard in Waldenburg can differ from the 72475 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Waldenburg's frost date answer different questions.