Southside, AL 35907 Frost Dates
Southside, AL: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/19, roughly 203 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 240 days after the last spring frost.
Southside 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 Southside's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Southside's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Southside against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 240 frost-free days, Southside places 8,679 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within AL, it ranks 294 of 809.
Learn more
Before leaning on 35907's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Southside's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Southside can differ from the 35907 normal.