Surfside Beach, SC 29588 Frost Dates
Surfside Beach, SC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/13, about 197 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 255 days after the last spring frost.
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 Surfside Beach, not a forecast for this year.
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 6,925 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 77 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29588's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Surfside Beach's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Surfside Beach can differ from the 29588 normal.