Somerville, AL 35699 Frost Dates
35699, near Somerville, AL: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
Somerville 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
Somerville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Somerville's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 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.
Somerville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Somerville places 10,881 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 571 of 809.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 35699: local microclimates, on what one yard in Somerville can differ from the 35699 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Somerville's frost date answer different questions.