Mooresville, AL 35649 Frost Dates
35649, near Mooresville, AL: the frost window
Around 03/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 211 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mooresville in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mooresville'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 Mooresville's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mooresville against the rest of the dataset
About 221 days separate Mooresville's last and first frost, putting it 12,615 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 622 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35649: local microclimates, on what one yard in Mooresville can differ from the 35649 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Mooresville's frost date answer different questions.