Greer, SC 29650 Frost Dates
29650, near Greer, SC: the frost window
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Greer in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Greer'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 Greer's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Greer against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 224 frost-free days, Greer places 11,730 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 380 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29650: local microclimates, on what one yard in Greer can differ from the 29650 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Greer's frost date answer different questions.