Concord, AR 72555 Frost Dates
Concord, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 198 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 Concord, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Concord's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Concord against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 198 frost-free days, Concord places 18,550 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 620 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72555's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Concord can differ from the 72555 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Concord's frost date answer different questions.