Grove Hill, AL 36482 Frost Dates
36482, near Grove Hill, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/22, about 206 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Grove Hill 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
Grove Hill's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Grove Hill against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Grove Hill's last and first frost, putting it 10,215 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 486 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36482: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Grove Hill's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Grove Hill's dates instead of trusting one.