Daviston, AL 36256 Frost Dates
36256, near Daviston, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/11, roughly 226 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/27, roughly 201 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 Daviston, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Daviston's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Daviston against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 201 frost-free days, Daviston places 17,671 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 806 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36256: the frost range, on how to read the range around Daviston's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Daviston can differ from the 36256 normal.