Pleasant Grove, AL 35127 Frost Dates
35127, near Pleasant Grove, 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.
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 Pleasant Grove, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pleasant Grove'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.
Why 03/23 isn't a guarantee
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.
Pleasant Grove against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 231 frost-free days, Pleasant Grove places 10,172 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 463 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35127: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pleasant Grove can differ from the 35127 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Pleasant Grove's frost date answer different questions.