Perdido Beach, AL 36549 Frost Dates
Perdido Beach, AL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/28, about 184 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/29, roughly 277 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Perdido Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Perdido Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 02/28 isn't a guarantee
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Perdido Beach against the rest of the dataset
About 277 days separate Perdido Beach's last and first frost, putting it 5,034 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 23 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36549's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Perdido Beach's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Perdido Beach's dates instead of trusting one.