North Augusta, SC 30901 Frost Dates
30901, near North Augusta, SC: the frost window
Around 02/27 is the usual last spring frost, about 183 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/04, roughly 283 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts North Augusta 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
North Augusta's growing season runs out in roughly 14 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 North Augusta's last frost
02/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
North Augusta against the rest of the dataset
About 283 days separate North Augusta's last and first frost, putting it 4,737 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 9 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 30901: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and North Augusta's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around North Augusta's dates instead of trusting one.