Cheraw, SC 29596 Frost Dates
Cheraw, SC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/30, roughly 214 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
Cheraw sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
With roughly 10 weeks until Cheraw's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cheraw against the rest of the dataset
Cheraw's growing season runs about 220 days, ranking 12,799 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 425 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29596's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Cheraw can differ from the 29596 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Cheraw's frost date answer different questions.