Russellville, AL 35585 Frost Dates
35585, near Russellville, AL: the frost window
Around 04/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 220 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Russellville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Russellville's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/05 isn't a guarantee
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Russellville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Russellville places 16,204 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 785 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35585: local microclimates, on what one yard in Russellville can differ from the 35585 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Russellville's frost date answer different questions.