Parksville, SC 30802 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Parksville, SC, ZIP 30802
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/27, roughly 211 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/07, about 226 frost-free days later.
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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Parksville has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Parksville's last frost
03/27 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Parksville compares
About 226 days separate Parksville's last and first frost, putting it 11,322 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 369 of 519.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Parksville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Parksville can differ from the 30802 normal.