Latta, SC 29565 Frost Dates
29565, near Latta, SC: the frost window
Around 03/22 is the usual last spring frost, about 206 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Latta 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
Latta'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 Latta'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.
Latta against the rest of the dataset
Latta's growing season runs about 234 days, ranking 9,769 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 276 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29565: local microclimates, on what one yard in Latta can differ from the 29565 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Latta's frost date answer different questions.