Kennedy, AL 35574 Frost Dates
Kennedy, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/20, roughly 204 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
Kennedy sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
With roughly 10 weeks until Kennedy'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
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kennedy against the rest of the dataset
About 234 days separate Kennedy's last and first frost, putting it 9,807 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 441 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35574's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Kennedy's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Kennedy's dates instead of trusting one.