McIntosh, AL 36585 Frost Dates
McIntosh, AL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/18, about 202 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for McIntosh, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until McIntosh's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around McIntosh's last frost
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
McIntosh against the rest of the dataset
About 239 days separate McIntosh's last and first frost, putting it 8,907 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 336 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36585's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around McIntosh's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in McIntosh can differ from the 36585 normal.