Center Point, AL 35235 Frost Dates
Center Point, AL: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Center Point in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Center Point's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Center Point's last frost
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
Center Point's growing season runs about 212 days, ranking 14,579 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within AL, it ranks 685 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35235's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Center Point's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Center Point's dates instead of trusting one.