Lipscomb, AL 35142 Frost Dates
Lipscomb, AL: when does the frost end?
Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lipscomb in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Lipscomb's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lipscomb's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 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.
Lipscomb against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 231 frost-free days, Lipscomb places 10,210 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 483 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35142's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lipscomb can differ from the 35142 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Lipscomb's frost date answer different questions.