Tuskegee, AL 36088 Frost Dates
36088, near Tuskegee, AL: the frost window
Around 03/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 209 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Tuskegee in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Tuskegee'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.
The actual range around Tuskegee's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tuskegee against the rest of the dataset
Tuskegee's growing season runs about 228 days, ranking 10,786 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 554 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36088: the frost range, on how to read the range around Tuskegee's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Tuskegee can differ from the 36088 normal.