Guntersville, AL 35976 Frost Dates
Guntersville, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/17, roughly 201 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 247 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 Guntersville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Guntersville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Guntersville's last frost
03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 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.
Guntersville against the rest of the dataset
About 247 days separate Guntersville's last and first frost, putting it 7,817 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 225 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35976's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Guntersville can differ from the 35976 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Guntersville's frost date answer different questions.