Homewood, AL 35211 Frost Dates
35211, near Homewood, AL: the frost window
Around 03/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 205 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 236 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 Homewood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Homewood'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 03/21 isn't a guarantee
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Homewood against the rest of the dataset
Homewood's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,319 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 366 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35211: the frost range, on how to read the range around Homewood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Homewood can differ from the 35211 normal.