Central Pacolet, SC 29372 Frost Dates
Central Pacolet, SC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/20 is the usual last spring frost, about 235 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/24, roughly 186 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 Central Pacolet, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Central Pacolet's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Central Pacolet's last frost
04/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 04/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 05/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Central Pacolet against the rest of the dataset
About 186 days separate Central Pacolet's last and first frost, putting it 22,948 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 516 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29372's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Central Pacolet's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Central Pacolet can differ from the 29372 normal.