Danwood, South Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Danwood, 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 Danwood lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Danwood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Danwood — the short answer
Danwood, South Carolina: USDA zone 8b, about 269 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 5
- Florence County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 29
- Florence County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~269
- Florence County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Florence County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Danwood's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Danwood's 269-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Danwood
Each reading below is measured for Danwood itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsDanwood runs about 269 days between hard freezes (read from Florence County, the closest normal to Danwood) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredDanwood sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Danwood is in
Danwood sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Danwood's own centroid rather than borrowed from Florence County.
What Grows in Danwood
Every plant below cleared Danwood's own zone 8b and its 269-day season. Each card opens that plant's South Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Danwood?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
Documented around Danwood
Survey cells within 31 miles of Danwood checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 108 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Danwood
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Danwood. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WILLIAMS FRAME & BODY SERVICEBrownfields · 1100 ft
- PEE DEEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- W LEE MOTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- KRAFT DAIRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- J C DORRELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- SAFETY KLEEN SYSTEMS INCBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- A&A TRANSMISSIONS OF FLORENCEBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- MCLAUGHLINUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- BUBBAS PIT STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- HUBS GRILL & GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- CROWN HOLDINGSBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- EFFINGHAM FEED & SEED INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Danwood'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 Danwood.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Danwood
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Danwood
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Danwood, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 380 sites within ~10 miles of Danwood. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Danwood
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 Danwood average
Your land is one point inside Danwood
Everything above resolves to Danwood as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Florence County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Danwood Average
Danwood Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Danwood
- ●One soil character for all of Danwood
- ●Frost dates read at Danwood's scale: Mar 5 to Nov 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Danwood's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Danwood
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Danwood, South Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Danwood averages can't show:
We read public map data around Danwood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Danwood average
How we know this about Danwood
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 Florence County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Danwood
When does frost risk typically end in Danwood?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Danwood typically lands around Mar 5, 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 Mar 26.
When is the first frost in Danwood?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Danwood typically arrives around Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 15, so the watching starts about Oct 30 — about 269 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Danwood?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Danwood sees about 269 frost-free days — roughly Mar 5 through Nov 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 26 to Nov 15, about 234 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Danwood?
The federal record around Danwood is a meaningful one — 568 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (380), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Danwood?
From about Oct 30 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Danwood's scale — its 8b band and its 269-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Danwood'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 Danwood’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Danwood's own scale — the 1,215 acres it covers and 568 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Danwood's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 568 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Danwood, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Danwood's boundary and the 1,215 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~269-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Danwood's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Danwood checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Danwood has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Florence County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Danwood's 1,215 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Florence County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Florence 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 Florence County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Danwood's 1,215 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Danwood you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,215 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Danwood-wide figureread your own land →