Pike Road, AL 36131 Frost Dates
Pike Road, AL: when does the frost end?
Around 03/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 188 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 262 days after the last spring frost.
Pike Road 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
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.
Why 03/04 isn't a guarantee
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
Pike Road's growing season runs about 262 days, ranking 6,218 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 133 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36131's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Pike Road's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pike Road's dates instead of trusting one.