Wadley, AL 36276 Frost Dates
36276, near Wadley, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/04, about 219 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 211 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 Wadley, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wadley'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.
The actual range around Wadley's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wadley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 211 frost-free days, Wadley places 14,819 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 705 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36276: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Wadley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Wadley's dates instead of trusting one.