Georgetown, SC 29442 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Georgetown, SC, ZIP 29442
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/28, roughly 184 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/01, about 277 frost-free days later.
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 Georgetown, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Georgetown has about 14 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.
The actual range around Georgetown's last frost
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Georgetown compares
About 277 days separate Georgetown's last and first frost, putting it 4,971 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 38 of 519.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Georgetown can differ from the 29442 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Georgetown's frost date answer different questions.