Coaling, AL 35449 Frost Dates
35449, near Coaling, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/18, about 202 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
Coaling 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
Coaling'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 03/18 isn't a guarantee
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Coaling against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 239 frost-free days, Coaling places 8,837 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 327 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35449: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Coaling's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Coaling's dates instead of trusting one.