Greenville, NC 27833 Frost Dates
27833, near Greenville, NC: the frost window
Around 03/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 210 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 232 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Greenville in Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Greenville's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Greenville's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Greenville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 232 frost-free days, Greenville places 10,028 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within NC, it ranks 174 of 1,078.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 27833: the frost range, on how to read the range around Greenville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Greenville can differ from the 27833 normal.