Lynn, AL 35575 Frost Dates
35575, near Lynn, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/29, roughly 213 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Lynn sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
Lynn's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lynn against the rest of the dataset
About 228 days separate Lynn's last and first frost, putting it 10,889 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 572 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35575: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lynn can differ from the 35575 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Lynn's frost date answer different questions.