Flomaton, AL 36427 Frost Dates
36427, near Flomaton, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/28, roughly 184 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 270 days after the last spring frost.
Flomaton 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
Flomaton'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.
The actual range around Flomaton's last frost
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/01 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.
Flomaton against the rest of the dataset
About 270 days separate Flomaton's last and first frost, putting it 5,604 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 48 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36427: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Flomaton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Flomaton's dates instead of trusting one.