Childersburg, AL 35014 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Childersburg, AL, ZIP 35014
Around 03/31 is the usual last spring frost, about 215 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/02, about 216 frost-free days later.
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 Childersburg, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Childersburg has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Childersburg's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/10 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Childersburg compares
At roughly 216 frost-free days, Childersburg places 13,779 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 664 of 809.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Childersburg can differ from the 35014 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Childersburg's frost date answer different questions.