Kellyton, AL 35011 Frost Dates
35011, near Kellyton, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/26, about 210 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
Kellyton 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
Kellyton's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Kellyton's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kellyton against the rest of the dataset
About 227 days separate Kellyton's last and first frost, putting it 11,076 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 583 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35011: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kellyton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kellyton can differ from the 35011 normal.