St. Paul, AR 72760 Frost Dates
72760, near St. Paul, AR: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/05, roughly 220 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
St. Paul 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
St. Paul's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/05 isn't a guarantee
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
St. Paul against the rest of the dataset
St. Paul's growing season runs about 211 days, ranking 14,906 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AR, it ranks 529 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72760: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and St. Paul's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around St. Paul's dates instead of trusting one.