Homewood, AL 35209 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Homewood, AL?
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.
Homewood 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Homewood before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Homewood'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 Homewood compares
Homewood's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,318 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 365 of 809.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Homewood's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Homewood can differ from the 35209 normal.