Leslie, AR 72645 Frost Dates
72645, near Leslie, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/26, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
Leslie sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Leslie's growing season runs out in roughly 8 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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 18,809 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 628 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72645: local microclimates, on what one yard in Leslie can differ from the 72645 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Leslie's frost date answer different questions.