Tallassee, AL 36078 Frost Dates
36078, near Tallassee, 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 11/08, roughly 228 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 Tallassee, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Tallassee'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 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.
Tallassee against the rest of the dataset
About 228 days separate Tallassee's last and first frost, putting it 10,806 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 557 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36078: the frost range, on how to read the range around Tallassee's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Tallassee can differ from the 36078 normal.