Paris, AR 72855 Frost Dates
Paris, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
Paris sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 10 weeks until Paris's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Paris against the rest of the dataset
About 223 days separate Paris's last and first frost, putting it 12,066 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 374 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72855's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Paris's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Paris's dates instead of trusting one.