Atmore, AL 36502 Frost Dates
36502, near Atmore, AL: the frost window
Around 02/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 184 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 270 days after the last spring frost.
Atmore 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
Atmore'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 Atmore'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.
Atmore against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 270 frost-free days, Atmore places 5,569 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 39 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36502: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Atmore's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Atmore's dates instead of trusting one.