Pine Hill, AL 36722 Frost Dates
Pine Hill, AL: when does the frost end?
Around 03/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 194 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 257 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pine Hill in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 12 weeks until Pine Hill's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pine Hill's last frost
03/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pine Hill against the rest of the dataset
Pine Hill's growing season runs about 257 days, ranking 6,737 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 154 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36722's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pine Hill's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pine Hill can differ from the 36722 normal.