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Silverstreet, SC 29145 Frost Dates

29145, near Silverstreet, SC: the frost window

Zone 8a

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.

Silverstreet 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

Silverstreet'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

04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Silverstreet against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 217 frost-free days, Silverstreet places 13,623 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 452 of 519.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 29145: local microclimates, on what one yard in Silverstreet can differ from the 29145 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Silverstreet's frost date answer different questions.