Cherokee, AL 35662 Frost Dates
35662, near Cherokee, AL: the frost window
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cherokee in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cherokee'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 Cherokee's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cherokee against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Cherokee places 16,990 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 799 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35662: the frost range, on how to read the range around Cherokee's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Cherokee can differ from the 35662 normal.