Moncks Corner, SC 29410 Frost Dates
29410, near Moncks Corner, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/22, about 206 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 238 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Moncks Corner, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Moncks Corner's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moncks Corner against the rest of the dataset
Moncks Corner's growing season runs about 238 days, ranking 8,955 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 212 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29410: the frost range, on how to read the range around Moncks Corner's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Moncks Corner can differ from the 29410 normal.