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Eutaw, AL 35448 Frost Dates

35448, near Eutaw, AL: the frost window

Zone 8b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/19, about 203 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.

Eutaw sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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

Eutaw's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

The actual range around Eutaw's last frost

03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Eutaw against the rest of the dataset

Eutaw's growing season runs about 239 days, ranking 8,833 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 325 of 809.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 35448: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Eutaw's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Eutaw's dates instead of trusting one.