DeBordieu Colony, South Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in DeBordieu Colony, 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 DeBordieu Colony lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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DeBordieu Colony — the short answer
DeBordieu Colony, South Carolina: USDA zone 8b, about 289 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 23
- Georgetown County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 9
- Georgetown County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~289
- Georgetown County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Georgetown County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is DeBordieu Colony's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against DeBordieu Colony's 289-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in DeBordieu Colony
Each reading below is measured for DeBordieu Colony itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsDeBordieu Colony runs about 289 days between hard freezes (read from Georgetown County, the closest normal to DeBordieu Colony) — 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
MeasuredDeBordieu Colony 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 DeBordieu Colony is in
DeBordieu Colony sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at DeBordieu Colony's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Georgetown County is mostly Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in DeBordieu Colony
Every plant below cleared DeBordieu Colony's own zone 8b and its 289-day season. Each card opens that plant's South Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in DeBordieu Colony?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
Documented around DeBordieu Colony
Survey cells within 31 miles of DeBordieu Colony checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 95 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near DeBordieu Colony
Closest first, within ~10 miles of DeBordieu Colony. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DEBORDIEU COLONYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- LOWES FUELING STATION 259Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- ARCADIA PLANTATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- COASTAL BODY SHOPBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- CLEMSON UNIV. B W BARUCH F S IBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- COASTAL CHEVROLET 2018 OVERFLOW PARKINGBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- ISLAND CLEANERSBrownfields · 4.2 mi
- BARUCH FOUNDATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- PAWLEYS ONE STOP SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- TOWERS FORMERLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- PLAYERS THREE WAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- CAROLINA DRYCLEANING LLCBrownfields · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from DeBordieu Colony'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 DeBordieu Colony.
Total Sites
214
within ~10 miles of DeBordieu Colony
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of DeBordieu Colony
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of DeBordieu Colony
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around DeBordieu Colony, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 136 sites within ~10 miles of DeBordieu Colony. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 DeBordieu Colony
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside DeBordieu Colony
Everything above resolves to DeBordieu Colony as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 3K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Georgetown 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 DeBordieu Colony Average
DeBordieu Colony Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across DeBordieu Colony
- ●One soil character for all of DeBordieu Colony
- ●Frost dates read at DeBordieu Colony's scale: Feb 23 to Dec 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not DeBordieu Colony's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in DeBordieu Colony
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in DeBordieu Colony, South Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that DeBordieu Colony averages can't show:
We read public map data around DeBordieu Colony — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the DeBordieu Colony average
How we know this about DeBordieu Colony
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 Georgetown 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 DeBordieu Colony
When does frost risk typically end in DeBordieu Colony?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in DeBordieu Colony typically lands around Feb 23, 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 16.
When is the first frost in DeBordieu Colony?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in DeBordieu Colony typically arrives around Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 25, so the watching starts about Nov 9 — about 289 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in DeBordieu Colony?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, DeBordieu Colony sees about 289 frost-free days — roughly Feb 23 through Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 16 to Nov 25, about 254 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in DeBordieu Colony?
The federal record around DeBordieu Colony is a meaningful one — 214 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (136), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 DeBordieu Colony?
From about Nov 9 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 Dec 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 Dec 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at DeBordieu Colony's scale — its 8b band and its 289-day season. Your yard writes its own version of DeBordieu Colony'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 DeBordieu Colony’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at DeBordieu Colony's own scale — the 2,637 acres it covers and 214 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- DeBordieu Colony's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 214 documented contamination sites on the federal record near DeBordieu Colony, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- DeBordieu Colony's boundary and the 2,637 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~289-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- DeBordieu Colony sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around DeBordieu Colony checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — DeBordieu Colony has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Georgetown County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so DeBordieu Colony's 2,637 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Georgetown County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Georgetown 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 Georgetown County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among DeBordieu Colony's 2,637 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of DeBordieu Colony you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,637 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 DeBordieu Colony-wide figureread your own land →