Maplesville, AL 36790 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Maplesville, AL?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/24, roughly 208 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/10, about 233 frost-free days later.
Maplesville 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Maplesville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Maplesville's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/11 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Maplesville compares
At roughly 233 frost-free days, Maplesville places 9,957 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 450 of 809.
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local microclimates covers what one yard in Maplesville can differ from the 36790 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8b and Maplesville's frost date answer different questions.