Frisco City, AL 36540 Frost Dates
36540, near Frisco City, AL: the frost window
Around 03/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 206 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Frisco City 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
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
About 231 days separate Frisco City's last and first frost, putting it 10,229 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 492 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36540: the frost range, on how to read the range around Frisco City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Frisco City can differ from the 36540 normal.