Cottageville, SC 29474 Frost Dates
29474, near Cottageville, SC: the frost window
Around 03/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 206 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 238 days after the last spring frost.
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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Cottageville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Cottageville against the rest of the dataset
About 238 days separate Cottageville's last and first frost, putting it 9,015 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 231 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29474: the frost range, on how to read the range around Cottageville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Cottageville can differ from the 29474 normal.