Greenville, TX 75404 Frost Dates
75404, near Greenville, TX: 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 11/14, roughly 242 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 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
03/16 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 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Greenville against the rest of the dataset
Greenville's growing season runs about 242 days, ranking 8,348 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within TX, it ranks 1,870 of 2,558.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75404: 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 75404 normal.