Travelers Rest, SC 29617 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Travelers Rest, SC, ZIP 29617
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 250 frost-free days later.
Travelers Rest 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.
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 7,516 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 128 of 519.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Travelers Rest's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Travelers Rest's dates instead of trusting one.