Coffee Springs, AL 36318 Frost Dates
36318, near Coffee Springs, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/09, roughly 193 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 260 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Coffee Springs 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
Coffee Springs'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.
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 6,505 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 148 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36318: the frost range, on how to read the range around Coffee Springs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Coffee Springs can differ from the 36318 normal.