Frisco City, AL 36470 Frost Dates
36470, near Frisco City, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/22, about 206 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Frisco City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Frisco City's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/22 isn't a guarantee
03/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Frisco City against the rest of the dataset
Frisco City's growing season runs about 231 days, ranking 10,228 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 491 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36470: local microclimates, on what one yard in Frisco City can differ from the 36470 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Frisco City's frost date answer different questions.