Forest Acres, SC 29220 Frost Dates
29220, near Forest Acres, SC: the frost window
Around 03/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 197 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 253 days after the last spring frost.
Forest Acres sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Forest Acres's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Forest Acres against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 253 frost-free days, Forest Acres places 7,123 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 93 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29220: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Forest Acres's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Forest Acres's dates instead of trusting one.