Pine Ridge, SC 29172 Frost Dates
29172, near Pine Ridge, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/25, about 209 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 229 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Pine Ridge, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Pine Ridge'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
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pine Ridge against the rest of the dataset
About 229 days separate Pine Ridge's last and first frost, putting it 10,602 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 338 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29172: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pine Ridge can differ from the 29172 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Pine Ridge's frost date answer different questions.