Thomaston, AL 36754 Frost Dates
36754, near Thomaston, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/10, about 194 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 257 days after the last spring frost.
Thomaston 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
Thomaston'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.
The actual range around Thomaston's last frost
03/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Thomaston against the rest of the dataset
About 257 days separate Thomaston's last and first frost, putting it 6,753 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 157 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36754: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Thomaston's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Thomaston's dates instead of trusting one.