Mulga, AL 35255 Frost Dates
35255, near Mulga, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/21, about 205 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mulga in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
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
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Mulga places 9,481 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 405 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35255: local microclimates, on what one yard in Mulga can differ from the 35255 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Mulga's frost date answer different questions.