Eutawville, SC 29048 Frost Dates
29048, near Eutawville, SC: the frost window
Around 03/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 209 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 232 days after the last spring frost.
Eutawville 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
Eutawville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Eutawville against the rest of the dataset
Eutawville's growing season runs about 232 days, ranking 10,073 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 321 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29048: the frost range, on how to read the range around Eutawville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Eutawville can differ from the 29048 normal.