Blythewood, SC 29016 Frost Dates
Blythewood, SC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/22, about 206 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 239 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 Blythewood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Blythewood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Blythewood's last frost
03/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Blythewood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 239 frost-free days, Blythewood places 8,813 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 199 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29016's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Blythewood can differ from the 29016 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Blythewood's frost date answer different questions.