Ranburne, AL 36273 Frost Dates
36273, near Ranburne, AL: the frost window
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Ranburne 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
Ranburne's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/06 isn't a guarantee
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.
Ranburne against the rest of the dataset
About 206 days separate Ranburne's last and first frost, putting it 16,105 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 781 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36273: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Ranburne's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Ranburne's dates instead of trusting one.