North Johns, AL 35006 Frost Dates
35006, near North Johns, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/20, about 204 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts North Johns in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
North Johns's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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
03/20 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 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Johns against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 235 frost-free days, North Johns places 9,669 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 434 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35006: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and North Johns's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around North Johns's dates instead of trusting one.