Gurley, AL 35815 Frost Dates
35815, near Gurley, 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 210 days after the last spring frost.
Gurley 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
Gurley'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.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
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.
Gurley against the rest of the dataset
Gurley's growing season runs about 210 days, ranking 15,066 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 736 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35815: the frost range, on how to read the range around Gurley's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Gurley can differ from the 35815 normal.