Forest Acres, SC 29204 Frost Dates
Forest Acres, SC: when does the frost end?
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
With roughly 11 weeks until Forest Acres's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Forest Acres's last frost
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
About 245 days separate Forest Acres's last and first frost, putting it 8,006 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 157 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29204's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Forest Acres can differ from the 29204 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Forest Acres's frost date answer different questions.