Munford, AL 36268 Frost Dates
36268, near Munford, 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 Munford, not a forecast for this year.
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.
Why 03/23 isn't a guarantee
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.
Munford against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 231 frost-free days, Munford places 10,224 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 490 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36268: the frost range, on how to read the range around Munford's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Munford can differ from the 36268 normal.