Skyline, AL 35766 Frost Dates
35766, near Skyline, AL: the frost window
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/30, roughly 209 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 Skyline, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Skyline'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 Skyline'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.
Skyline against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 209 frost-free days, Skyline places 15,337 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 759 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35766: local microclimates, on what one yard in Skyline can differ from the 35766 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Skyline's frost date answer different questions.