Lynchburg, SC 29046 Frost Dates
29046, near Lynchburg, SC: the frost window
Around 03/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 203 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
Lynchburg 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
Lynchburg's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Lynchburg's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lynchburg against the rest of the dataset
About 241 days separate Lynchburg's last and first frost, putting it 8,625 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 184 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29046: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Lynchburg's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Lynchburg's dates instead of trusting one.