Foley, AL 36536 Frost Dates
36536, near Foley, AL: the frost window
Around 03/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 189 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 264 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Foley in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Foley's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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 Foley's last frost
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Foley against the rest of the dataset
About 264 days separate Foley's last and first frost, putting it 6,047 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 96 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36536: local microclimates, on what one yard in Foley can differ from the 36536 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Foley's frost date answer different questions.