Gordon, AL 36370 Frost Dates
36370, near Gordon, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/05, about 189 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 264 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Gordon, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gordon's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/05 isn't a guarantee
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gordon against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 264 frost-free days, Gordon places 6,089 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 109 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36370: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Gordon's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Gordon's dates instead of trusting one.