Grant, AL 35747 Frost Dates
35747, near Grant, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Grant 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
Grant's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Grant's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Grant against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 210 frost-free days, Grant places 15,044 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 722 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35747: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Grant's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Grant's dates instead of trusting one.