Forest Acres, SC 29260 Frost Dates
29260, near Forest Acres, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/13, about 197 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 253 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Forest Acres in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's 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.
The actual range around Forest Acres's last frost
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
About 253 days separate Forest Acres's last and first frost, putting it 7,132 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 102 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29260: 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 29260 normal.