Georgiana, AL 36015 Frost Dates
Georgiana, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Georgiana, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Georgiana'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
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Georgiana against the rest of the dataset
About 224 days separate Georgiana's last and first frost, putting it 11,917 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 601 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36015's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Georgiana's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Georgiana can differ from the 36015 normal.