Mayesville, SC 29104 Frost Dates
29104, near Mayesville, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/19, about 203 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mayesville in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Mayesville'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 Mayesville'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.
Mayesville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 241 frost-free days, Mayesville places 8,610 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 182 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29104: local microclimates, on what one yard in Mayesville can differ from the 29104 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Mayesville's frost date answer different questions.