Piedmont, AL 36272 Frost Dates
Piedmont, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/06, roughly 221 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 207 days after the last spring frost.
Piedmont sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 9 weeks until Piedmont's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Piedmont against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 207 frost-free days, Piedmont places 15,814 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 773 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36272's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Piedmont can differ from the 36272 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Piedmont's frost date answer different questions.