Pinckard, AL 36371 Frost Dates
Pinckard, AL: when does the frost end?
Around 03/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 185 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 270 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pinckard in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
With roughly 13 weeks until Pinckard's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pinckard's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pinckard against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 270 frost-free days, Pinckard places 5,619 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 53 of 809.
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Before leaning on 36371's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Pinckard can differ from the 36371 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Pinckard's frost date answer different questions.