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Brundidge, AL 36346 Frost Dates

Brundidge, AL: when does the frost end?

Zone 8b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/17, roughly 201 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 242 days after the last spring frost.

Brundidge 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 11 weeks until Brundidge's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Brundidge's last frost

03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Brundidge against the rest of the dataset

About 242 days separate Brundidge's last and first frost, putting it 8,372 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 268 of 809.

Learn more

Before leaning on 36346's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Brundidge's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Brundidge can differ from the 36346 normal.