Center Point, AL 35215 Frost Dates
35215, near Center Point, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/04, roughly 219 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 212 days after the last spring frost.
Center Point sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Center Point'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.
Why 04/04 isn't a guarantee
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Center Point against the rest of the dataset
About 212 days separate Center Point's last and first frost, putting it 14,578 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 684 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35215: the frost range, on how to read the range around Center Point's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Center Point can differ from the 35215 normal.