Newbern, AL 36765 Frost Dates
Newbern, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/18, roughly 202 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 240 days after the last spring frost.
Newbern sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Newbern's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Newbern against the rest of the dataset
Newbern's growing season runs about 240 days, ranking 8,727 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 306 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36765's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Newbern's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Newbern's dates instead of trusting one.