Union Springs, AL 36061 Frost Dates
36061, near Union Springs, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/25, roughly 209 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Union Springs sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Union Springs'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.
Why 03/25 isn't a guarantee
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 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.
Union Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 226 days separate Union Springs's last and first frost, putting it 11,206 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 585 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36061: the frost range, on how to read the range around Union Springs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Union Springs can differ from the 36061 normal.