Greenville, SC 29652 Frost Dates
29652, near Greenville, SC: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
Greenville sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
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.
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
About 250 days separate Greenville's last and first frost, putting it 7,442 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within SC, it ranks 121 of 519.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 29652: local microclimates, on what one yard in Greenville can differ from the 29652 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Greenville's frost date answer different questions.