Blackville, SC 29817 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Blackville, SC?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/20, about 204 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/13, about 238 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Blackville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Blackville before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Blackville's last frost
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Blackville compares
About 238 days separate Blackville's last and first frost, putting it 8,987 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 220 of 519.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Blackville's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Blackville can differ from the 29817 normal.