Forest Acres, SC 29202 Frost Dates
29202, near Forest Acres, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 245 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 Forest Acres, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Forest Acres'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.
Why 03/16 isn't a guarantee
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Forest Acres against the rest of the dataset
Forest Acres's growing season runs about 245 days, ranking 8,005 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 156 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29202: the frost range, on how to read the range around Forest Acres's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Forest Acres can differ from the 29202 normal.