Cherokee, AL 35616 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cherokee, AL, ZIP 35616
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 10/28, about 203 frost-free days later.
Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 Cherokee, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 7b around Cherokee has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/23 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/24 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cherokee compares
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Cherokee places 16,989 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 798 of 809.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Cherokee's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Cherokee can differ from the 35616 normal.