Margaret, AL 35120 Frost Dates
Margaret, AL: when does the frost end?
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 212 days after the last spring frost.
Margaret 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 9 weeks until Margaret's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Margaret against the rest of the dataset
About 212 days separate Margaret's last and first frost, putting it 14,595 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 690 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35120's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Margaret can differ from the 35120 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Margaret's frost date answer different questions.