Fort Lawn, SC 29714 Frost Dates
Fort Lawn, SC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/03, roughly 218 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 213 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 Fort Lawn, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Fort Lawn's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 04/03 isn't a guarantee
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fort Lawn against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 213 frost-free days, Fort Lawn places 14,525 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 465 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29714's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Fort Lawn's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Fort Lawn can differ from the 29714 normal.