FrostDateCheck

Sellers, SC 29592 Frost Dates

29592, near Sellers, SC: the frost window

Zone 8b

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.

Sellers 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

Sellers'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 Sellers'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.

Sellers against the rest of the dataset

At roughly 234 frost-free days, Sellers places 9,819 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 282 of 519.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 29592: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Sellers's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Sellers's dates instead of trusting one.