Honea Path, SC 29654 Frost Dates
Honea Path, SC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 234 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 Honea Path, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Honea Path's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/23 isn't a guarantee
03/23 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 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Honea Path against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 234 frost-free days, Honea Path places 9,738 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 272 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29654's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Honea Path's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Honea Path's dates instead of trusting one.