Moncks Corner, SC 29461 Frost Dates
29461, 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 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
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.
The actual range around Moncks Corner's last frost
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
About 238 days separate Moncks Corner's last and first frost, putting it 8,956 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 213 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29461: local microclimates, on what one yard in Moncks Corner can differ from the 29461 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Moncks Corner's frost date answer different questions.