Easley, SC 29640 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Easley, SC?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 205 frost-free days later.
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 Easley, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 9 weeks of growing season left in Easley before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Easley's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Easley compares
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Easley places 16,183 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 489 of 519.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Easley's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Easley can differ from the 29640 normal.