Pike Road, AL 36052 Frost Dates
Pike Road, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/04, roughly 188 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 262 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Pike Road, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Pike Road'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
03/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pike Road against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 262 frost-free days, Pike Road places 6,206 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 121 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36052's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pike Road's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pike Road can differ from the 36052 normal.