Florence, AL 35630 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Florence, AL, ZIP 35630
Around 03/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 211 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 220 frost-free days later.
Florence 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Florence has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Florence's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Florence compares
At roughly 220 frost-free days, Florence places 12,683 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 625 of 809.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Florence's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Florence's dates instead of trusting one.