Thomasville, AL 36784 Frost Dates
36784, near Thomasville, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/10, roughly 194 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 257 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Thomasville 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
Thomasville'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 Thomasville'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.
Thomasville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 257 frost-free days, Thomasville places 6,696 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 151 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36784: local microclimates, on what one yard in Thomasville can differ from the 36784 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Thomasville's frost date answer different questions.