Six Mile, SC 29682 Frost Dates
29682, near Six Mile, SC: the frost window
Around 03/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 205 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 236 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 Six Mile, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Six Mile's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/21 isn't a guarantee
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Six Mile against the rest of the dataset
Six Mile's growing season runs about 236 days, ranking 9,499 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 261 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29682: the frost range, on how to read the range around Six Mile's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Six Mile can differ from the 29682 normal.