Chickasaw, AL 36610 Frost Dates
Chickasaw, AL: when does the frost end?
Around 02/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 177 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/06, roughly 292 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Chickasaw in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
With roughly 14 weeks until Chickasaw's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Chickasaw's last frost
02/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Chickasaw against the rest of the dataset
About 292 days separate Chickasaw's last and first frost, putting it 4,352 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 18 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36610's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Chickasaw's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Chickasaw can differ from the 36610 normal.