Fairfield, AL 35064 Frost Dates
Fairfield, AL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Fairfield 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 11 weeks until Fairfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fairfield's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fairfield against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Fairfield's last and first frost, putting it 10,170 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 461 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35064's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Fairfield can differ from the 35064 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Fairfield's frost date answer different questions.