Leslie, AR 72629 Frost Dates
Leslie, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 04/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 226 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 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 Leslie, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Leslie's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Leslie's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leslie against the rest of the dataset
Leslie's growing season runs about 197 days, ranking 18,808 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 627 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72629's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Leslie's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Leslie's dates instead of trusting one.