Albertville, AL 35950 Frost Dates
Albertville, AL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/19, about 203 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 244 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Albertville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Albertville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Albertville's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Albertville against the rest of the dataset
Albertville's growing season runs about 244 days, ranking 8,208 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 249 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35950's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Albertville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Albertville can differ from the 35950 normal.