Sylacauga, AL 35149 Frost Dates
35149, near Sylacauga, AL: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 211 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sylacauga 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
Sylacauga'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 Sylacauga's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sylacauga against the rest of the dataset
Sylacauga's growing season runs about 211 days, ranking 14,736 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 697 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35149: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Sylacauga's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Sylacauga's dates instead of trusting one.