Turbeville, SC 29051 Frost Dates
Turbeville, SC: when does the frost end?
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.
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 Turbeville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Turbeville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Turbeville's last frost
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.
Turbeville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 232 frost-free days, Turbeville places 10,065 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 318 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29051's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Turbeville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Turbeville's dates instead of trusting one.