Midfield, AL 35288 Frost Dates
Midfield, AL: when does the frost end?
Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Midfield 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Midfield's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Midfield against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Midfield's last and first frost, putting it 10,184 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within AL, it ranks 468 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35288's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Midfield's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Midfield's dates instead of trusting one.