Cross Hill, SC 29332 Frost Dates
Cross Hill, SC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 217 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Cross Hill, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Cross Hill's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Cross Hill's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cross Hill against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 217 frost-free days, Cross Hill places 13,605 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 451 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29332's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Cross Hill's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Cross Hill's dates instead of trusting one.