Bayou La Batre, AL 36541 Frost Dates
36541, near Bayou La Batre, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 255 days after the last spring frost.
Bayou La Batre sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Bayou La Batre'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 Bayou La Batre's last frost
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bayou La Batre against the rest of the dataset
Bayou La Batre's growing season runs about 255 days, ranking 6,943 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 168 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36541: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bayou La Batre can differ from the 36541 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Bayou La Batre's frost date answer different questions.