Valley Grande, AL 36749 Frost Dates
36749, near Valley Grande, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/08, roughly 192 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 254 days after the last spring frost.
Valley Grande sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Valley Grande's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/08 isn't a guarantee
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Valley Grande against the rest of the dataset
About 254 days separate Valley Grande's last and first frost, putting it 7,032 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 175 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36749: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Valley Grande's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Valley Grande's dates instead of trusting one.