Scottsboro, AL 35769 Frost Dates
Scottsboro, AL: when does the frost end?
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 209 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Scottsboro 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Scottsboro's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Scottsboro'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.
Scottsboro against the rest of the dataset
About 209 days separate Scottsboro's last and first frost, putting it 15,172 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 756 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35769's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Scottsboro's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Scottsboro can differ from the 35769 normal.