Pike Road, AL 36118 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Pike Road, AL?
Around 03/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 188 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/18, about 262 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
About 12 weeks of growing season left in Pike Road before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Pike Road's last frost
03/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pike Road compares
About 262 days separate Pike Road's last and first frost, putting it 6,211 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 126 of 809.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Pike Road's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Pike Road can differ from the 36118 normal.