Travelers Rest, SC 29661 Frost Dates
Travelers Rest, SC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 205 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Travelers Rest 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
With roughly 9 weeks until Travelers Rest's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Travelers Rest's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Travelers Rest against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 205 frost-free days, Travelers Rest places 16,210 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 490 of 519.
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Before leaning on 29661's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Travelers Rest can differ from the 29661 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Travelers Rest's frost date answer different questions.