Prattville, AL 36066 Frost Dates
36066, near Prattville, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/13, about 197 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 244 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Prattville 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
Prattville's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Prattville's last frost
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Prattville against the rest of the dataset
Prattville's growing season runs about 244 days, ranking 8,199 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 247 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36066: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Prattville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Prattville's dates instead of trusting one.