South Vinemont, AL 35056 Frost Dates
Frost dates for South Vinemont, AL, ZIP 35056
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/31, roughly 215 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 215 frost-free days later.
South Vinemont sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around South Vinemont 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 South Vinemont's last frost
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/14 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/20 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How South Vinemont compares
At roughly 215 frost-free days, South Vinemont places 14,170 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 680 of 809.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around South Vinemont's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in South Vinemont can differ from the 35056 normal.