Surfside Beach, SC 29575 Frost Dates
Surfside Beach, SC: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Surfside Beach 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 12 weeks until Surfside Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Surfside Beach's last frost
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.
Surfside Beach against the rest of the dataset
About 255 days separate Surfside Beach's last and first frost, putting it 6,922 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 74 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29575's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Surfside Beach can differ from the 29575 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Surfside Beach's frost date answer different questions.