Woodstock, AL 35074 Frost Dates
35074, near Woodstock, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Woodstock, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Woodstock'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 Woodstock's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodstock against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Woodstock's last and first frost, putting it 10,218 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 487 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35074: local microclimates, on what one yard in Woodstock can differ from the 35074 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Woodstock's frost date answer different questions.