Pine Apple, AL 36768 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pine Apple, AL, ZIP 36768
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/08, about 192 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 256 frost-free days later.
Pine Apple 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Pine Apple has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Pine Apple's last frost
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/28 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pine Apple compares
At roughly 256 frost-free days, Pine Apple places 6,854 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 164 of 809.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Pine Apple's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Pine Apple's dates instead of trusting one.