Munford, AL 36260 Frost Dates
36260, near Munford, AL: the frost window
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
Munford sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Munford'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
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Munford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 225 frost-free days, Munford places 11,440 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 596 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36260: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Munford's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Munford's dates instead of trusting one.