Greenland, AR 72766 Frost Dates
72766, near Greenland, AR: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/15, about 230 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/21, roughly 188 days after the last spring frost.
Greenland 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
Greenland'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 Greenland'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.
Greenland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 188 frost-free days, Greenland places 22,101 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 681 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72766: the frost range, on how to read the range around Greenland's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Greenland can differ from the 72766 normal.