Phenix City, AL 36867 Frost Dates
36867, near Phenix City, AL: the frost window
Around 03/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 189 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 265 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Phenix City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Phenix City's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Phenix City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 265 frost-free days, Phenix City places 5,970 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 87 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36867: the frost range, on how to read the range around Phenix City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Phenix City can differ from the 36867 normal.