Caesars Head, South Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Caesars Head, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Caesars Head lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Caesars Head — the short answer
Caesars Head, South Carolina: USDA zone 7b, about 224 days between hard freezes, across 941 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~224
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 941 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7b is Caesars Head's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Caesars Head's 224-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Caesars Head
Each reading below is measured for Caesars Head itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCaesars Head runs about 224 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCaesars Head sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Caesars Head is in
Caesars Head sits in the Blue Ridge — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Caesars Head's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Greenville County is mostly Piedmont. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Caesars Head
Every plant below cleared Caesars Head's own zone 7b and its 224-day season. Each card opens that plant's South Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Caesars Head?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Caesars Head
Spotted lanternfly documented 20 miles from Caesars Head, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Caesars Head
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Caesars Head. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WESC FM TOWERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- WYFF TVUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- CAESARS HEAD STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- ROSMAN HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 2.5 mi
- CORN'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- GRV- 68Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- BLYTHE SHOALS TRADING COUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- CENDYS CAFE & GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- BURGESS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- BRIGHT PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- AGFA CORPORATIONToxics Release Inventory · 5.4 mi
- AGFA CORPORATIONBrownfields · 5.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Caesars Head's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Caesars Head.
Total Sites
61
within ~10 miles of Caesars Head
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Caesars Head
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Caesars Head
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Caesars Head, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Caesars Head — Toxics Release Inventory (5 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (42 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Caesars Head
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Caesars Head average
Your land is one point inside Caesars Head
Everything above resolves to Caesars Head as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 941 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Caesars Head Average
Caesars Head Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Caesars Head
- ●One soil character for all of Caesars Head
- ●Frost dates read at Caesars Head's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Caesars Head's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Caesars Head
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Caesars Head, South Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Caesars Head averages can't show:
We read public map data around Caesars Head — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Caesars Head average
How we know this about Caesars Head
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Caesars Head’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Caesars Head
When does frost risk typically end in Caesars Head?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Caesars Head typically lands around Mar 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 20.
When is the first frost in Caesars Head?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Caesars Head typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 224 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Caesars Head?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Caesars Head sees about 224 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 26, about 189 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Caesars Head?
The federal record around Caesars Head shows 61 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (42), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Caesars Head?
From about Oct 10 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Caesars Head's scale — its 7b band and its 224-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Caesars Head's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Caesars Head’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Caesars Head's own scale — its own ~224-day season between 28°F freezes, the 941 acres it covers and 61 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Caesars Head's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Caesars Head's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 9 and the ~224-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 61 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Caesars Head, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Caesars Head's boundary and the 941 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~224-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Caesars Head sits in the Blue Ridge — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Caesars Headlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Caesars Head's 941 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Greenville County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Greenville County
- The growing challenges every South Carolina grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom South Carolina
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Greenville County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Caesars Head's 941 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Caesars Head you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 941 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Caesars Head-wide figureread your own land →