Southside, AR 72527 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Southside, AR, ZIP 72527
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 221 frost-free days later.
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 Southside, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Southside has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/11 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Southside compares
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Southside places 12,508 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 405 of 687.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Southside's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Southside can differ from the 72527 normal.