Cherokee Ridge, AL 35754 Frost Dates
35754, near Cherokee Ridge, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Cherokee Ridge 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
Cherokee Ridge'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 Ridge's last frost
04/04 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 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cherokee Ridge against the rest of the dataset
About 210 days separate Cherokee Ridge's last and first frost, putting it 15,105 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 753 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35754: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Cherokee Ridge's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cherokee Ridge's dates instead of trusting one.