Coward, SC 29530 Frost Dates
Coward, SC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 203 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Coward in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Coward's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Coward's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Coward against the rest of the dataset
Coward's growing season runs about 241 days, ranking 8,603 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 179 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29530's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Coward's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Coward's dates instead of trusting one.