Pike Road, AL 36142 Frost Dates
36142, near Pike Road, AL: the frost window
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.
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.
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
About 262 days separate Pike Road's last and first frost, putting it 6,223 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 138 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36142: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pike Road can differ from the 36142 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Pike Road's frost date answer different questions.