Brookside, AL 35117 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Brookside, AL, ZIP 35117
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/21, roughly 205 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/11, about 236 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Brookside in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Brookside has about 11 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 Brookside's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Brookside compares
Brookside's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,451 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 386 of 809.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Brookside can differ from the 35117 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Brookside's frost date answer different questions.