Bay Minette, AL 36562 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Bay Minette, AL, ZIP 36562
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/28, about 184 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/25, about 272 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Bay Minette, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Bay Minette 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 02/03 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bay Minette compares
At roughly 272 frost-free days, Bay Minette places 5,372 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 29 of 809.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Bay Minette's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Bay Minette can differ from the 36562 normal.