Abbeville, SC 29620 Frost Dates
Abbeville, SC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
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 Abbeville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Abbeville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/26 isn't a guarantee
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Abbeville against the rest of the dataset
About 233 days separate Abbeville's last and first frost, putting it 9,894 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 287 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29620's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Abbeville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Abbeville can differ from the 29620 normal.