Elgin, SC 29045 Frost Dates
Elgin, 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.
Elgin 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 Elgin'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
03/22 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.
Elgin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 239 frost-free days, Elgin places 8,847 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 202 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29045's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Elgin can differ from the 29045 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Elgin's frost date answer different questions.