Scotia, SC 29922 Frost Dates
29922, near Scotia, SC: the frost window
Around 03/23 is the usual last spring frost, about 207 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Scotia in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Scotia's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Scotia's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scotia against the rest of the dataset
Scotia's growing season runs about 233 days, ranking 9,994 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 302 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29922: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Scotia's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Scotia's dates instead of trusting one.