Moncks Corner, SC 29476 Frost Dates
29476, near Moncks Corner, SC: the frost window
Around 03/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 191 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 266 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 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/07 isn't a guarantee
03/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moncks Corner against the rest of the dataset
Moncks Corner's growing season runs about 266 days, ranking 5,929 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 50 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29476: local microclimates, on what one yard in Moncks Corner can differ from the 29476 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Moncks Corner's frost date answer different questions.