Baileyton, AL 35087 Frost Dates
35087, near Baileyton, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/05, roughly 220 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Baileyton 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
Baileyton'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/05 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.
Baileyton against the rest of the dataset
About 210 days separate Baileyton's last and first frost, putting it 15,078 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 743 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35087: the frost range, on how to read the range around Baileyton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Baileyton can differ from the 35087 normal.