Prichard, AL 36613 Frost Dates
Prichard, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/03, roughly 187 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 268 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 Prichard, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Prichard's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Prichard's last frost
03/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Prichard against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 268 frost-free days, Prichard places 5,737 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 75 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36613's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Prichard's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Prichard's dates instead of trusting one.