Wetumpka, AL 36092 Frost Dates
36092, near Wetumpka, AL: the frost window
Around 03/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 209 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 230 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 Wetumpka, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wetumpka'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 03/25 isn't a guarantee
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 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
Wetumpka's growing season runs about 230 days, ranking 10,366 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 498 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36092: 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 36092 normal.