Yellow Bluff, AL 36728 Frost Dates
Yellow Bluff, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/18, roughly 202 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 241 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 Yellow Bluff, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Yellow Bluff's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yellow Bluff against the rest of the dataset
About 241 days separate Yellow Bluff's last and first frost, putting it 8,637 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 284 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36728's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Yellow Bluff can differ from the 36728 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Yellow Bluff's frost date answer different questions.