Yellow Bluff, AL 36751 Frost Dates
Yellow Bluff, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/17, roughly 201 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 237 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 10 weeks until Yellow Bluff's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/17 isn't a guarantee
03/17 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 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Yellow Bluff against the rest of the dataset
Yellow Bluff's growing season runs about 237 days, ranking 9,169 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 348 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36751's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Yellow Bluff's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Yellow Bluff can differ from the 36751 normal.