Lake View, AL 35111 Frost Dates
35111, near Lake View, AL: the frost window
Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Lake View 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
Lake View'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 Lake View'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.
Lake View against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 231 frost-free days, Lake View places 10,188 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 470 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35111: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake View can differ from the 35111 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Lake View's frost date answer different questions.