Briarcliffe Acres, SC 29572 Frost Dates
29572, near Briarcliffe Acres, SC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 255 days after the last spring frost.
Briarcliffe Acres 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
Briarcliffe Acres'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.
Why 03/13 isn't a guarantee
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.
Briarcliffe Acres against the rest of the dataset
About 255 days separate Briarcliffe Acres's last and first frost, putting it 6,961 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 81 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29572: local microclimates, on what one yard in Briarcliffe Acres can differ from the 29572 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Briarcliffe Acres's frost date answer different questions.