Pickens, SC 29671 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pickens, SC, ZIP 29671
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/01, about 205 frost-free days later.
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 Pickens, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Pickens has about 9 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Pickens's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/24 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/23 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pickens compares
Pickens's growing season runs about 205 days, ranking 16,304 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 499 of 519.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Pickens's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Pickens's dates instead of trusting one.