Wedowee, AL 36278 Frost Dates
36278, near Wedowee, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
Wedowee 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
Wedowee'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.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
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.
Wedowee against the rest of the dataset
About 211 days separate Wedowee's last and first frost, putting it 14,822 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 707 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36278: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wedowee's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wedowee can differ from the 36278 normal.