Centreville, AL 35042 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Centreville, AL, ZIP 35042
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/02, about 215 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Centreville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Centreville has about 9 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 Centreville's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Centreville compares
At roughly 215 frost-free days, Centreville places 14,093 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 676 of 809.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Centreville can differ from the 35042 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Centreville's frost date answer different questions.