Gurley, AL 35895 Frost Dates
35895, near Gurley, 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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gurley 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
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.
The actual range around Gurley'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.
Gurley against the rest of the dataset
About 210 days separate Gurley's last and first frost, putting it 15,069 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 739 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35895: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Gurley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Gurley's dates instead of trusting one.