Parksville, SC 29821 Frost Dates
Parksville, SC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/27, roughly 211 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
Parksville 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Parksville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Parksville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 226 frost-free days, Parksville places 11,319 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 366 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29821's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Parksville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Parksville's dates instead of trusting one.