Cope, SC 29038 Frost Dates
Cope, SC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/15, about 199 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 249 days after the last spring frost.
Cope 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 12 weeks until Cope'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
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cope against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 249 frost-free days, Cope places 7,671 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 151 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29038's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cope can differ from the 29038 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Cope's frost date answer different questions.