Falkville, AL 35622 Frost Dates
35622, near Falkville, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/05, about 220 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Falkville 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
Falkville'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.
The actual range around Falkville's last frost
04/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 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.
Falkville against the rest of the dataset
Falkville's growing season runs about 210 days, ranking 15,040 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 719 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35622: local microclimates, on what one yard in Falkville can differ from the 35622 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Falkville's frost date answer different questions.