Brent, AL 35034 Frost Dates
35034, near Brent, AL: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Brent 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
Brent's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brent against the rest of the dataset
About 215 days separate Brent's last and first frost, putting it 14,086 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 675 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35034: the frost range, on how to read the range around Brent's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Brent can differ from the 35034 normal.