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Bishopville, SC 29010 Frost Dates

Bishopville, SC: when does the frost end?

Zone 8b

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.