Burnettown, SC 29851 Frost Dates
29851, near Burnettown, SC: the frost window
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 206 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Burnettown, not a forecast for this year.
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
About 206 days separate Burnettown's last and first frost, putting it 16,021 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 488 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29851: local microclimates, on what one yard in Burnettown can differ from the 29851 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Burnettown's frost date answer different questions.