Coker, AL 35446 Frost Dates
35446, near Coker, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/12, roughly 196 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
Coker sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Coker'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.
Why 03/12 isn't a guarantee
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Coker against the rest of the dataset
Coker's growing season runs about 250 days, ranking 7,564 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 209 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35446: the frost range, on how to read the range around Coker's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Coker can differ from the 35446 normal.