Steele, AL 35987 Frost Dates
Steele, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 230 days after the last spring frost.
Steele sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 11 weeks until Steele's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Steele against the rest of the dataset
Steele's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,440 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 509 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35987's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Steele's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Steele's dates instead of trusting one.