Pike Road, AL 36069 Frost Dates
36069, near Pike Road, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/04, about 188 days from today. 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
Pike Road's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
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 6,209 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 124 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36069: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pike Road can differ from the 36069 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Pike Road's frost date answer different questions.