Bishopville, SC 29010 Frost Dates
Bishopville, SC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/19, about 203 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
Bishopville 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Bishopville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bishopville's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bishopville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 241 frost-free days, Bishopville places 8,550 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 172 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29010's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bishopville can differ from the 29010 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Bishopville's frost date answer different questions.