Haleburg, AL 36373 Frost Dates
36373, near Haleburg, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 256 days after the last spring frost.
Haleburg 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
Haleburg'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
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Haleburg against the rest of the dataset
Haleburg's growing season runs about 256 days, ranking 6,855 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 165 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36373: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Haleburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Haleburg's dates instead of trusting one.