Mulga, AL 35253 Frost Dates
Mulga, AL: when does the frost end?
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.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Mulga, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Mulga's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 9,480 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 404 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35253's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Mulga's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Mulga's dates instead of trusting one.