Santee, SC 29142 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Santee, SC, ZIP 29142
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/15, about 199 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/19, about 249 frost-free days later.
Santee 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Santee has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Santee's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/22 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/31 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Santee compares
At roughly 249 frost-free days, Santee places 7,648 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 141 of 519.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Santee can differ from the 29142 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Santee's frost date answer different questions.