Parksville, SC 29838 Frost Dates
29838, near Parksville, SC: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 226 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Parksville 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
Parksville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/28 isn't a guarantee
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/10 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 11,320 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 367 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29838: local microclimates, on what one yard in Parksville can differ from the 29838 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Parksville's frost date answer different questions.