Farmington, AR 72730 Frost Dates
Farmington, AR: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/15, roughly 230 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Farmington sits in USDA Zone 7a (0 to 5°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
With roughly 8 weeks until Farmington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Farmington's last frost
04/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Farmington against the rest of the dataset
Farmington's growing season runs about 188 days, ranking 21,926 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 670 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72730's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Farmington's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Farmington can differ from the 72730 normal.