Plum Branch, SC 29845 Frost Dates
Plum Branch, SC: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
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 Plum Branch, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Plum Branch's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Plum Branch's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 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.
Plum Branch against the rest of the dataset
About 226 days separate Plum Branch's last and first frost, putting it 11,329 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 371 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29845's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Plum Branch's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Plum Branch can differ from the 29845 normal.