Greenwood, AR 72913 Frost Dates
Greenwood, AR: when does the frost end?
Around 03/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 209 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Greenwood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Greenwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/25 isn't a guarantee
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Greenwood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 224 frost-free days, Greenwood places 11,800 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AR, it ranks 333 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72913's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Greenwood can differ from the 72913 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Greenwood's frost date answer different questions.