Henagar, AL 35978 Frost Dates
Henagar, AL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/07, about 222 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Henagar sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 9 weeks until Henagar's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Henagar's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Henagar against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Henagar places 16,623 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 794 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35978's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Henagar's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Henagar's dates instead of trusting one.