Brewton, AL 36426 Frost Dates
36426, near Brewton, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/14, roughly 198 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 248 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Brewton in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Brewton's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Brewton's last frost
03/14 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 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brewton against the rest of the dataset
About 248 days separate Brewton's last and first frost, putting it 7,692 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 218 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36426: local microclimates, on what one yard in Brewton can differ from the 36426 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Brewton's frost date answer different questions.