Starr, SC 29626 Frost Dates
29626, near Starr, SC: the frost window
Around 03/29 is the usual last spring frost, about 213 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 227 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 Starr, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Starr's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 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.
Starr against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Starr places 11,073 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 362 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29626: local microclimates, on what one yard in Starr can differ from the 29626 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Starr's frost date answer different questions.