Excel, AL 36439 Frost Dates
Excel, AL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/10, about 194 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Excel 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 12 weeks until Excel's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Excel's last frost
03/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 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.
Excel against the rest of the dataset
About 251 days separate Excel's last and first frost, putting it 7,391 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 200 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36439's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Excel's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Excel can differ from the 36439 normal.