Varnville, SC 29944 Frost Dates
29944, near Varnville, SC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/23, roughly 207 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
Varnville sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Varnville'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 Varnville'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.
Varnville against the rest of the dataset
Varnville's growing season runs about 233 days, ranking 9,924 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 293 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29944: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Varnville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Varnville's dates instead of trusting one.