Orrville, AL 36773 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Orrville, AL, ZIP 36773
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/21, about 205 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/05, about 229 frost-free days later.
Orrville 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 Orrville has about 10 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.
Why 03/21 isn't a guarantee
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Orrville compares
At roughly 229 frost-free days, Orrville places 10,674 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 541 of 809.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Orrville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Orrville's dates instead of trusting one.