Greenwood, SC 29648 Frost Dates
29648, near Greenwood, SC: the frost window
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 233 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 Greenwood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Greenwood'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 Greenwood's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Greenwood against the rest of the dataset
About 233 days separate Greenwood's last and first frost, putting it 9,861 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 285 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29648: the frost range, on how to read the range around Greenwood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Greenwood can differ from the 29648 normal.