Dozier, AL 36028 Frost Dates
Dozier, AL: when does the frost end?
Around 02/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 184 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/28, roughly 274 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Dozier in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Dozier's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Dozier's last frost
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dozier against the rest of the dataset
About 274 days separate Dozier's last and first frost, putting it 5,175 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 26 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36028's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Dozier's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Dozier can differ from the 36028 normal.