Linden, AL 36764 Frost Dates
36764, near Linden, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
Linden 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
Linden'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 Linden'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.
Linden against the rest of the dataset
Linden's growing season runs about 241 days, ranking 8,577 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 275 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36764: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Linden's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Linden's dates instead of trusting one.