Atmore, AL 36504 Frost Dates
Atmore, AL: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Atmore in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
With roughly 13 weeks until Atmore's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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 5,570 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 40 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36504's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Atmore's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Atmore's dates instead of trusting one.