Mulga, AL 35220 Frost Dates
35220, near Mulga, AL: the frost window
Around 03/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 205 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
Mulga 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
Mulga'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.
The actual range around Mulga's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mulga against the rest of the dataset
About 236 days separate Mulga's last and first frost, putting it 9,472 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 396 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35220: the frost range, on how to read the range around Mulga's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Mulga can differ from the 35220 normal.