West Blocton, AL 35184 Frost Dates
35184, near West Blocton, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 215 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 West Blocton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
West Blocton's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 West Blocton's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Blocton against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 215 frost-free days, West Blocton places 14,132 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 678 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35184: the frost range, on how to read the range around West Blocton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in West Blocton can differ from the 35184 normal.