Cameron, SC 29030 Frost Dates
Cameron, SC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 249 days after the last spring frost.
Cameron 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 Cameron's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cameron's last frost
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cameron against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 249 frost-free days, Cameron places 7,658 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 145 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29030's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cameron's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cameron can differ from the 29030 normal.