St. Paul, AR 72852 Frost Dates
72852, near St. Paul, AR: the frost window
Around 03/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 209 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 232 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 11 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 St. Paul's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
St. Paul against the rest of the dataset
About 232 days separate St. Paul's last and first frost, putting it 10,078 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 210 of 687.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 72852: the frost range, on how to read the range around St. Paul's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in St. Paul can differ from the 72852 normal.