Wagener, SC 29164 Frost Dates
29164, near Wagener, SC: the frost window
Around 03/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 203 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Wagener in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Wagener'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 Wagener's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Wagener against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 241 frost-free days, Wagener places 8,605 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 181 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29164: the frost range, on how to read the range around Wagener's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Wagener can differ from the 29164 normal.