Demopolis, AL 36742 Frost Dates
36742, near Demopolis, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Demopolis 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
Demopolis's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Demopolis's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Demopolis against the rest of the dataset
About 241 days separate Demopolis's last and first frost, putting it 8,543 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 272 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36742: the frost range, on how to read the range around Demopolis's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Demopolis can differ from the 36742 normal.