Elgin, SC 29078 Frost Dates
Elgin, SC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/04 is the usual last spring frost, about 219 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 213 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Elgin in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Elgin's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Elgin's last frost
04/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elgin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 213 frost-free days, Elgin places 14,518 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 464 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29078's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Elgin's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Elgin can differ from the 29078 normal.