Jemison, AL 35085 Frost Dates
35085, near Jemison, AL: the frost window
Around 03/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 205 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Jemison sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Jemison'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 Jemison's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jemison against the rest of the dataset
About 235 days separate Jemison's last and first frost, putting it 9,608 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 426 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35085: local microclimates, on what one yard in Jemison can differ from the 35085 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Jemison's frost date answer different questions.