Eastover, SC 29044 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Eastover, SC, ZIP 29044
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/21, roughly 205 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/13, about 239 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Eastover, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Eastover has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Eastover's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Eastover compares
About 239 days separate Eastover's last and first frost, putting it 8,868 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 206 of 519.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Eastover's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Eastover's dates instead of trusting one.