Greenville, SC 29636 Frost Dates
Greenville, SC: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
Greenville sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Greenville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
At roughly 250 frost-free days, Greenville places 7,441 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within SC, it ranks 120 of 519.
Learn more
Before leaning on 29636's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Greenville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Greenville's dates instead of trusting one.