Foley, AL 36535 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Foley, AL, ZIP 36535
Around 03/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 189 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/23, about 264 frost-free days later.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Foley, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Foley has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Foley's last frost
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/26 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Foley compares
About 264 days separate Foley's last and first frost, putting it 6,046 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 95 of 809.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Foley's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Foley's dates instead of trusting one.