Leesburg, AL 35983 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Leesburg, AL, ZIP 35983
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/31, about 207 frost-free days later.
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 Leesburg, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Leesburg has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Leesburg's last frost
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/22 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Leesburg compares
At roughly 207 frost-free days, Leesburg places 15,850 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 777 of 809.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Leesburg can differ from the 35983 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Leesburg's frost date answer different questions.