Dadeville, AL 36853 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Dadeville, AL, ZIP 36853
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/11, about 226 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/27, about 201 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Dadeville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Dadeville has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Dadeville's last frost
04/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/25 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Dadeville compares
At roughly 201 frost-free days, Dadeville places 17,520 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 804 of 809.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Dadeville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Dadeville's dates instead of trusting one.