Timmonsville, SC 29161 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Timmonsville, SC?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/19, roughly 203 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/15, about 241 frost-free days later.
Timmonsville 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
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Timmonsville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Timmonsville's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Timmonsville compares
At roughly 241 frost-free days, Timmonsville places 8,565 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 174 of 519.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8b and Timmonsville's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Timmonsville's dates instead of trusting one.