Barling, AR 72923 Frost Dates
Barling, 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 Barling, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Barling's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Barling's last frost
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.
Barling against the rest of the dataset
About 224 days separate Barling's last and first frost, putting it 11,850 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AR, it ranks 340 of 687.
Learn more
Before leaning on 72923's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Barling's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Barling can differ from the 72923 normal.