Greensboro, AL 36744 Frost Dates
36744, near Greensboro, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/17, about 201 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 240 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Greensboro 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
Greensboro'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/23 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.
Greensboro against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 240 frost-free days, Greensboro places 8,697 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 301 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36744: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Greensboro's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Greensboro's dates instead of trusting one.