Travelers Rest, SC 29613 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Travelers Rest, SC, ZIP 29613
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 250 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Travelers Rest, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Travelers Rest has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/02 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Travelers Rest compares
About 250 days separate Travelers Rest's last and first frost, putting it 7,515 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 127 of 519.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Travelers Rest's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Travelers Rest can differ from the 29613 normal.