Anniston, AL 36201 Frost Dates
36201, near Anniston, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Anniston, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Anniston'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/23 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 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Anniston against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 231 frost-free days, Anniston places 10,145 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 457 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36201: local microclimates, on what one yard in Anniston can differ from the 36201 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Anniston's frost date answer different questions.