Jenkinsville, SC 29015 Frost Dates
Jenkinsville, SC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Jenkinsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Jenkinsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jenkinsville against the rest of the dataset
About 210 days separate Jenkinsville's last and first frost, putting it 15,135 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 475 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29015's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Jenkinsville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Jenkinsville's dates instead of trusting one.