Dillon, SC 29536 Frost Dates
Dillon, SC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/22, roughly 206 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
Dillon 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Dillon's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Dillon's last frost
03/22 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 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Dillon against the rest of the dataset
Dillon's growing season runs about 234 days, ranking 9,725 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 267 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29536's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Dillon's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Dillon can differ from the 29536 normal.