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Burnettown, SC 29822 Frost Dates

Burnettown, SC: when does the frost end?

Zone 8b

The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/09, about 224 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Burnettown 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

With roughly 9 weeks until Burnettown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.

The actual range around Burnettown's last frost

04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Burnettown against the rest of the dataset

About 206 days separate Burnettown's last and first frost, putting it 16,016 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 483 of 519.

Learn more

Before leaning on 29822's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Burnettown's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Burnettown can differ from the 29822 normal.