Shorter, AL 36075 Frost Dates
36075, near Shorter, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Shorter sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Shorter's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Shorter against the rest of the dataset
Shorter's growing season runs about 228 days, ranking 10,912 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 574 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36075: the frost range, on how to read the range around Shorter's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Shorter can differ from the 36075 normal.