Central, SC 29630 Frost Dates
29630, near Central, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/21, about 205 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
Central 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
Central's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Central's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Central against the rest of the dataset
Central's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,424 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 260 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29630: the frost range, on how to read the range around Central's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Central can differ from the 29630 normal.