Cuba, AL 36907 Frost Dates
36907, near Cuba, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/14, roughly 198 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Cuba 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
Cuba's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Cuba's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cuba against the rest of the dataset
About 245 days separate Cuba's last and first frost, putting it 8,070 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 241 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 36907: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Cuba's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Cuba's dates instead of trusting one.