Greenville, SC 29616 Frost Dates
29616, near Greenville, SC: the frost window
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Greenville 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
Greenville's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Greenville against the rest of the dataset
Greenville's growing season runs about 250 days, ranking 7,440 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within SC, it ranks 119 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29616: 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 29616 normal.