Hemingway, SC 29554 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Hemingway, SC?
Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/13, about 237 frost-free days later.
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 Hemingway, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Hemingway before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Hemingway's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Hemingway compares
At roughly 237 frost-free days, Hemingway places 9,152 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 249 of 519.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Hemingway can differ from the 29554 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8b and Hemingway's frost date answer different questions.