Iva, SC 29655 Frost Dates
Iva, SC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/29, roughly 213 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
Iva sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Iva's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Iva's last frost
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Iva against the rest of the dataset
About 227 days separate Iva's last and first frost, putting it 11,036 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 361 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29655's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Iva's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Iva's dates instead of trusting one.