Travelers Rest, SC 29690 Frost Dates
Travelers Rest, SC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
Travelers Rest 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Travelers Rest's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Travelers Rest against the rest of the dataset
Travelers Rest's growing season runs about 250 days, ranking 7,517 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 129 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29690's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Travelers Rest's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Travelers Rest's dates instead of trusting one.