Pike Road, AL 36135 Frost Dates
Pike Road, AL: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pike Road 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
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.
The actual range around Pike Road's last frost
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 6,220 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 135 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36135's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pike Road's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pike Road can differ from the 36135 normal.