Peak, SC 29122 Frost Dates
29122, near Peak, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/31, about 215 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
Peak sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Peak's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
03/31 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Peak against the rest of the dataset
About 223 days separate Peak's last and first frost, putting it 12,165 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 416 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29122: local microclimates, on what one yard in Peak can differ from the 29122 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Peak's frost date answer different questions.