Meggett, SC 29449 Frost Dates
29449, near Meggett, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/01, about 185 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/06, roughly 280 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 Meggett, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Meggett's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Meggett's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Meggett against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 280 frost-free days, Meggett places 4,834 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 26 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29449: the frost range, on how to read the range around Meggett's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Meggett can differ from the 29449 normal.