Spartanburg, SC 29348 Frost Dates
29348, near Spartanburg, SC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 224 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 Spartanburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Spartanburg's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/28 isn't a guarantee
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Spartanburg against the rest of the dataset
Spartanburg's growing season runs about 224 days, ranking 11,741 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 391 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29348: the frost range, on how to read the range around Spartanburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Spartanburg can differ from the 29348 normal.