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Town Creek, AL 35672 Frost Dates

Town Creek, AL: when does the frost end?

Zone 8a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.

Town Creek 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.

Stretching the season past the first frost

With roughly 10 weeks until Town Creek's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

Why 03/28 isn't a guarantee

03/28 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 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Town Creek against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 221 frost-free days, Town Creek places 12,542 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 619 of 809.

Learn more

Before leaning on 35672's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Town Creek can differ from the 35672 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Town Creek's frost date answer different questions.