Forest Acres, SC 29207 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Forest Acres, SC, ZIP 29207
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/19, about 253 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Forest Acres has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
Why 03/13 isn't a guarantee
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/31 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Forest Acres compares
About 253 days separate Forest Acres's last and first frost, putting it 7,115 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 85 of 519.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Forest Acres's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Forest Acres's dates instead of trusting one.