Coffee Springs, AL 36316 Frost Dates
Coffee Springs, AL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/09, about 193 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 260 days after the last spring frost.
Coffee Springs 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 Coffee Springs'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
03/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Coffee Springs against the rest of the dataset
Coffee Springs's growing season runs about 260 days, ranking 6,504 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 147 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36316's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Coffee Springs's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Coffee Springs's dates instead of trusting one.