Holly Hill, SC 29059 Frost Dates
29059, near Holly Hill, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/22, about 206 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 238 days after the last spring frost.
Holly Hill 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
Holly Hill'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 Holly Hill's last frost
03/22 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 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Holly Hill against the rest of the dataset
About 238 days separate Holly Hill's last and first frost, putting it 8,997 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 225 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29059: local microclimates, on what one yard in Holly Hill can differ from the 29059 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Holly Hill's frost date answer different questions.