Lincoln, AL 35096 Frost Dates
Lincoln, AL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 225 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 Lincoln, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Lincoln's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lincoln's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 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.
Lincoln against the rest of the dataset
Lincoln's growing season runs about 225 days, ranking 11,397 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 590 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35096's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Lincoln's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Lincoln can differ from the 35096 normal.