AC repair data for Greenville: what the federal numbers say

Name: AC repair local data for Greenville
Creator: Tar River Cooling Desk

Free local data for AC repair work in Greenville, taken from federal sources and last pulled October 30, 2026. It covers the Greenville, NC Metro Area, starting with records that bear on AC repair work directly, then the homes and the local trade.

Hot days and warm nights in Greenville

The Greenville weather station, about 4 miles from central Greenville, recorded an average of 11.3 days a year at 95°F or hotter from 2016 to 2025, compared with 12.2 a year from 1961 to 1990. The hottest year by this count was 1915, with 42 such days.

The low stayed at 75°F or warmer on an average of 17.6 nights a year from 2016 to 2025, against 3.0 a year from 1961 to 1990.

The highest temperature in the station's record was 104°F, first reached on September 1, 1932.

Days reaching 95°F or hotter at the Greenville weather station

Decade	Days 95°F or hotter, per year	Nights 75°F or warmer, per year
1920s	15.8	2.9
1930s	20.7	5.0
1960s	11.2	2.8
1970s	9.2	1.3
1980s	14.8	4.7
1990s	11.8	8.5
2000s	10.6	8.8
2010s	16.2	13.6

Daily maximum and minimum temperatures from NOAA GHCN-Daily station USC00313638 (Greenville), complete years 1914 to 2025. Years with fewer than 330 valid readings are left out. Station moves and instrument changes are not adjusted for, so compare decades with some care. Decade rows need at least 8 complete years.

Heat advisories and warnings issued for Greenville

From 2005 to 2025 the National Weather Service issued 145 heat advisories and 19 excessive or extreme heat warnings for the Pitt forecast zone, which covers Greenville. Together they were in effect on 164 days, about 7.8 a year.

The last five years (2021 to 2025) averaged 10.0 heat-alert days a year, against 5.8 in 2005 to 2009. The most was 16 days in 2016.

In 2026, up to the end of October, there were 22 heat alerts covering 21 days.

Days with a heat advisory or heat warning in effect in the Pitt forecast zone

NWS VTEC alert records (watches, warnings, advisories) from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive, for forecast zone NCZ044 (Pitt), the zone containing the city centre. Counts are alerts issued, not measured heat, and each forecast office sets its own heat criteria, which have changed over time. Excessive Heat Warnings were renamed Extreme Heat Warnings in 2025; both are counted as warnings. A day counts when any alert was in effect during it (times shifted 6 hours from UTC).

How homes around Greenville are cooled, and what cooling costs

Across Pitt County, the ResStock modelled estimate is that 43.4% of occupied homes cool with central air conditioning, 44.1% with a heat pump, 6.8% with room or window units, and 5.7% have no cooling equipment. Statewide in North Carolina the central air share is 47.7%; across the US it is 53.7%.

In the model, a home with cooling equipment in the county uses about 4,330 kWh of electricity a year to cool (compressor plus fans and pumps), against 4,283 kWh statewide and 3,652 kWh for the US. At the average residential electricity price from September 2025 to August 2026, 14.9 cents per kWh in North Carolina, that comes to about $645 a year per cooled home, compared with $638 across North Carolina and $659 for the US at the US average of 18.1 cents per kWh.

Average residential electricity price in North Carolina, by year

Modelled measure	Metro counties	North Carolina	United States
Central air conditioning	43.4%	47.7%	53.7%
Heat pump	44.1%	39.2%	16.3%
Room or window units	6.8%	8.2%	19.8%
No cooling equipment	5.7%	4.9%	10.2%
Cooling electricity per cooled home	4,330 kWh	4,283 kWh	3,652 kWh
Yearly cost to cool at recent prices	$645	$638	$659

Modelled estimate: NREL ResStock 2024 release 2 baseline, 279 simulated dwellings in the county, weighted to occupied homes and run with 2018 actual weather. Equipment shares are calibrated to surveys, not counted. Cost = modelled cooling kWh times the EIA average residential retail price for the county's state (simple mean of the latest 12 monthly values, the most recent months preliminary).

The housing here

The year-built mix is the closest public proxy for cooling load: it says how many systems are original or long past replacement. In the Greenville, NC Metro Area, 2,824 of 82,638 homes (3.4%) were built before 1940, and 8,148 (9.9%) before 1960. Nationally the shares are 11.7% and 25.6%. The median home across the metro is worth $208,900, against $332,700 nationally. 48.6% of households rent. Heating fuel splits 13.5% gas and 79.9% electric.

Area	Homes	Median year built	Built before 1940	Built before 1960	Renters	Gas heat	Electric heat	Median value
Greenville, NC Metro Area	82,638	1994	3.4%	9.9%	48.6%	13.5%	79.9%	$208,900
Pitt County, North Carolina	82,638	1994	3.4%	9.9%	48.6%	13.5%	79.9%	$208,900
Greenville (city)	45,767	1996	2.0%	8.9%	67.3%	14.2%	83.6%	$233,500
North Carolina	4,895,668	1991	4.9%	14.1%	33.4%	24.5%	65.5%	$288,900
United States	143,775,355	1980	11.7%	25.6%	34.8%	46.5%	41.3%	$332,700

U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates 2020-2024. Counties shown are the main ones in the metro (1 in all).

The local market

County Business Patterns counts 57 plumbing and HVAC contractors across the Greenville, NC Metro Area, 7.65 for every ten thousand households. That is roughly one for every 1,308 households. The Census counts locations rather than companies, so a one-truck operator and a national chain's branch each count once. That Census code covers plumbing and heating and cooling together, so it counts more establishments than the trade alone.

Home prices

The Federal Housing Finance Agency's house price index for Greenville, NC is up 3% over the latest year (through 2025). Over five years it is up 56.2%, and over ten it is up 82.5%. The index follows repeat sales of the same houses, so it measures how prices moved, not what any one home sells for this month.

What the trade pays

HVAC and refrigeration mechanics and installers (SOC 49-9021) in Greenville, NC earned a mean of $25.68 an hour ($53,410 a year) in May 2025, against $31.14 an hour ($64,780) nationally, about 18% below the national mean. The median is $25.56 an hour here and $29.33 nationally. BLS estimates 220 people hold that job in Greenville, NC.

These are wages paid to workers, not prices charged to customers; a customer's bill also has to cover the vehicle and the insurance.

Where these numbers come from

The American Community Survey is a sample, so every housing figure carries a margin of error, and it is widest for small areas. Where a source suppresses a cell to protect individual businesses or because the sample is too thin, we leave it blank rather than estimate it. Tar River Cooling Desk reads these files and does not edit them.