Fairfield, AL 35208 Frost Dates
Fairfield, AL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/21, about 205 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
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 Fairfield, not a forecast for this year.
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fairfield against the rest of the dataset
About 236 days separate Fairfield's last and first frost, putting it 9,413 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 378 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35208's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Fairfield's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Fairfield's dates instead of trusting one.