Starr, SC 29684 Frost Dates
29684, near Starr, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
Starr 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
Starr's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Starr against the rest of the dataset
Starr's growing season runs about 227 days, ranking 11,074 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 363 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29684: the frost range, on how to read the range around Starr's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Starr can differ from the 29684 normal.