Brookwood, AL 35444 Frost Dates
35444, near Brookwood, AL: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/20, about 204 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Brookwood 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Brookwood'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brookwood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 235 frost-free days, Brookwood places 9,611 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 427 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35444: the frost range, on how to read the range around Brookwood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Brookwood can differ from the 35444 normal.