Clanton, AL 36091 Frost Dates
Clanton, AL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/24, about 208 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 233 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 Clanton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Clanton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Clanton's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clanton against the rest of the dataset
Clanton's growing season runs about 233 days, ranking 9,878 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 445 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36091's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Clanton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Clanton can differ from the 36091 normal.