Talladega Springs, AL 35143 Frost Dates
Talladega Springs, AL: when does the frost end?
Around 03/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 205 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Talladega Springs 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 11 weeks until Talladega Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Talladega Springs's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Talladega Springs against the rest of the dataset
Talladega Springs's growing season runs about 235 days, ranking 9,668 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 433 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35143's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Talladega Springs's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Talladega Springs can differ from the 35143 normal.