Moody, AL 35004 Frost Dates
35004, near Moody, AL: the frost window
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 212 days after the last spring frost.
Moody sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Moody's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Moody's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moody against the rest of the dataset
About 212 days separate Moody's last and first frost, putting it 14,580 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 686 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35004: local microclimates, on what one yard in Moody can differ from the 35004 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Moody's frost date answer different questions.