Hytop, AL 35745 Frost Dates
Hytop, AL: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/06, about 221 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
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 Hytop, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Hytop's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hytop against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Hytop places 16,723 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 795 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35745's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Hytop can differ from the 35745 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Hytop's frost date answer different questions.