Greenville, NC 27858 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Greenville, NC, ZIP 27858
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 232 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Greenville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Greenville has about 11 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.
Why 03/26 isn't a guarantee
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/04 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Greenville compares
About 232 days separate Greenville's last and first frost, putting it 10,031 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within NC, it ranks 177 of 1,078.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Greenville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Greenville can differ from the 27858 normal.