Enterprise, AL 36330 Frost Dates
Enterprise, 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.
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 Enterprise, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Enterprise'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.
Enterprise against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 260 frost-free days, Enterprise places 6,469 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 141 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36330's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Enterprise can differ from the 36330 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Enterprise's frost date answer different questions.