Elmore, AL 36025 Frost Dates
36025, near Elmore, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/13, about 197 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 244 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 Elmore, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Elmore's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/13 isn't a guarantee
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elmore against the rest of the dataset
About 244 days separate Elmore's last and first frost, putting it 8,240 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 253 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36025: the frost range, on how to read the range around Elmore's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Elmore can differ from the 36025 normal.