Blue Springs, AL 36374 Frost Dates
Blue Springs, AL: when does the frost end?
Around 03/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 189 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 264 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Blue Springs 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
With roughly 13 weeks until Blue Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/05 isn't a guarantee
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Blue Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 264 frost-free days, Blue Springs places 6,090 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 110 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36374's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Blue Springs's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Blue Springs's dates instead of trusting one.