Orange Beach, AL 36547 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Orange Beach, AL, ZIP 36547
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/28, about 184 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/29, about 277 frost-free days later.
Orange Beach 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Orange Beach has about 13 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Orange Beach compares
About 277 days separate Orange Beach's last and first frost, putting it 4,972 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 20 of 809.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Orange Beach's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Orange Beach's dates instead of trusting one.