Strawberry, AR 72572 Frost Dates
Strawberry, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/27, roughly 211 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 224 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 Strawberry, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Strawberry's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Strawberry'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.
Strawberry against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 224 frost-free days, Strawberry places 11,956 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 356 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72572's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Strawberry's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Strawberry can differ from the 72572 normal.