Abbeville, SC 29695 Frost Dates
Abbeville, SC: when does the frost end?
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 233 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 Abbeville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Abbeville'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
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Abbeville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 233 frost-free days, Abbeville places 9,895 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 288 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29695's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Abbeville can differ from the 29695 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Abbeville's frost date answer different questions.