Andrews, SC 29510 Frost Dates
29510, near Andrews, SC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 237 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 Andrews, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Andrews'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 Andrews's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 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.
Andrews against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 237 frost-free days, Andrews places 9,119 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 244 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29510: local microclimates, on what one yard in Andrews can differ from the 29510 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Andrews's frost date answer different questions.