Ridgeway, SC 29130 Frost Dates
29130, near Ridgeway, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 237 days after the last spring frost.
Ridgeway 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
Ridgeway'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 Ridgeway's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 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.
Ridgeway against the rest of the dataset
About 237 days separate Ridgeway's last and first frost, putting it 9,165 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 252 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29130: the frost range, on how to read the range around Ridgeway's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Ridgeway can differ from the 29130 normal.