Daleville, AL 36322 Frost Dates
36322, near Daleville, AL: the frost window
Around 03/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 193 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 260 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Daleville in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Daleville's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/09 isn't a guarantee
03/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Daleville against the rest of the dataset
About 260 days separate Daleville's last and first frost, putting it 6,475 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 143 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36322: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Daleville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Daleville's dates instead of trusting one.