Talladega Springs, AL 35183 Frost Dates
Talladega Springs, AL: when does the frost end?
Around 03/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 209 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 230 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 Talladega Springs, not a forecast for this year.
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Talladega Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 230 frost-free days, Talladega Springs places 10,485 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 520 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35183'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 35183 normal.