Moncks Corner, SC 29434 Frost Dates
Moncks Corner, SC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/07, about 191 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 266 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
With roughly 13 weeks until Moncks Corner's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Moncks Corner's last frost
03/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moncks Corner against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 266 frost-free days, Moncks Corner places 5,928 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 49 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29434's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Moncks Corner can differ from the 29434 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Moncks Corner's frost date answer different questions.