Coker, AL 35486 Frost Dates
35486, near Coker, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/12, about 196 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Coker 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
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
About 250 days separate Coker's last and first frost, putting it 7,567 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 212 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35486: 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 35486 normal.