Cottageville, SC 29435 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Cottageville, SC, ZIP 29435
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/22, roughly 206 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 238 frost-free days later.
Cottageville sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Cottageville has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/22 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Cottageville compares
At roughly 238 frost-free days, Cottageville places 9,014 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 230 of 519.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Cottageville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Cottageville's dates instead of trusting one.