Cross Hill, SC 29370 Frost Dates
29370, near Cross Hill, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 219 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
Cross Hill'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.
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 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cross Hill against the rest of the dataset
About 219 days separate Cross Hill's last and first frost, putting it 13,095 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 433 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29370: the frost range, on how to read the range around Cross Hill's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Cross Hill can differ from the 29370 normal.