Hardy, AR 72542 Frost Dates
Hardy, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 210 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 Hardy, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Hardy's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Hardy's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hardy against the rest of the dataset
About 210 days separate Hardy's last and first frost, putting it 15,073 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 537 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72542's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hardy can differ from the 72542 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Hardy's frost date answer different questions.