Toxey, AL 36921 Frost Dates
Toxey, AL: when does the frost end?
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.
Toxey 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Toxey's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/10 isn't a guarantee
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.
Toxey against the rest of the dataset
About 257 days separate Toxey's last and first frost, putting it 6,762 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 160 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36921's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Toxey can differ from the 36921 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Toxey's frost date answer different questions.