Conway, SC 29526 Frost Dates
29526, near Conway, SC: the frost window
Around 03/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 197 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 255 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 Conway, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Conway's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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 Conway's last frost
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Conway against the rest of the dataset
About 255 days separate Conway's last and first frost, putting it 6,892 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 69 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29526: local microclimates, on what one yard in Conway can differ from the 29526 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Conway's frost date answer different questions.