Gray Court, SC 29645 Frost Dates
29645, near Gray Court, SC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 219 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 Gray Court, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gray Court'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.
The actual range around Gray Court's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gray Court against the rest of the dataset
About 219 days separate Gray Court's last and first frost, putting it 13,078 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 431 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29645: local microclimates, on what one yard in Gray Court can differ from the 29645 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Gray Court's frost date answer different questions.