Burnettown, SC 29828 Frost Dates
29828, near Burnettown, SC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/09, roughly 224 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Burnettown 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
Burnettown's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 04/09 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 206 frost-free days, Burnettown places 16,017 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 484 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29828: local microclimates, on what one yard in Burnettown can differ from the 29828 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Burnettown's frost date answer different questions.