Wetumpka, AL 36045 Frost Dates
36045, near Wetumpka, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Wetumpka 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
Wetumpka's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Wetumpka's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wetumpka against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Wetumpka places 10,791 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 555 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36045: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wetumpka's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wetumpka can differ from the 36045 normal.