Pickens, SC 29634 Frost Dates
Pickens, SC: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pickens in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Pickens's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pickens's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pickens against the rest of the dataset
About 205 days separate Pickens's last and first frost, putting it 16,303 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 498 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29634's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pickens's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pickens can differ from the 29634 normal.