Elkmont, AL 35620 Frost Dates
Elkmont, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Elkmont, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Elkmont's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Elkmont's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elkmont against the rest of the dataset
Elkmont's growing season runs about 223 days, ranking 12,122 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 610 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35620's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Elkmont can differ from the 35620 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Elkmont's frost date answer different questions.