Ninety Six, SC 29037 Frost Dates
Ninety Six, SC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 217 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 Ninety Six, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Ninety Six'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
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ninety Six against the rest of the dataset
Ninety Six's growing season runs about 217 days, ranking 13,518 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 449 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29037's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Ninety Six's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Ninety Six's dates instead of trusting one.