Orrville, AL 36767 Frost Dates
Orrville, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/21, roughly 205 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 229 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Orrville 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 10 weeks until Orrville'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
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Orrville against the rest of the dataset
About 229 days separate Orrville's last and first frost, putting it 10,673 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 540 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 36767's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Orrville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Orrville's dates instead of trusting one.