West Pelzer, SC 29673 Frost Dates
29673, near West Pelzer, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 250 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 West Pelzer, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
West Pelzer's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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 West Pelzer's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Pelzer against the rest of the dataset
West Pelzer's growing season runs about 250 days, ranking 7,562 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 132 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29673: the frost range, on how to read the range around West Pelzer's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in West Pelzer can differ from the 29673 normal.