Vance, AL 35490 Frost Dates
Vance, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/20, roughly 204 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Vance, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Vance'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
03/20 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 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Vance against the rest of the dataset
About 235 days separate Vance's last and first frost, putting it 9,613 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 428 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35490's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Vance can differ from the 35490 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Vance's frost date answer different questions.