Gaylesville, AL 35973 Frost Dates
35973, near Gaylesville, AL: the frost window
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 225 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gaylesville 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
Gaylesville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gaylesville against the rest of the dataset
Gaylesville's growing season runs about 225 days, ranking 11,503 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 599 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35973: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gaylesville can differ from the 35973 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Gaylesville's frost date answer different questions.