Eutawville, 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.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Eutawville, 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 Eutawville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Eutawville — the short answer
Eutawville, South Carolina: USDA zone 8b, about 281 days between hard freezes, across 615 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 23
- Orangeburg County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 1
- Orangeburg County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~281
- Orangeburg County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 615 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 Orangeburg County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Eutawville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eutawville's 281-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eutawville
Each reading below is measured for Eutawville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsEutawville runs about 281 days between hard freezes (read from Orangeburg County, the closest normal to Eutawville) — 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
MeasuredEutawville 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 Eutawville is in
Eutawville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eutawville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Orangeburg County.
What Grows in Eutawville
Every plant below cleared Eutawville's own zone 8b and its 281-day season. Each card opens that plant's South Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eutawville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
Documented around Eutawville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Eutawville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 148 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Eutawville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eutawville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AUM SAI OF EUTAWVILLE - NUMBER SIX HWYUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- WATKINS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- HOT SPOT 1607Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- PRATTS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- STRICK'S ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CHESAPEAKE CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- PARKERS SHOPWORTH STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR 6087Brownfields · 1.6 mi
- CAROLINA POLE INCBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- CAROLINA POLE INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.7 mi
- SANTEE COOPER GMAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- BELLS MARINA INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eutawville'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 Eutawville.
Total Sites
145
within ~10 miles of Eutawville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eutawville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eutawville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eutawville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 94 sites within ~10 miles of Eutawville. 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 Eutawville
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 Eutawville average
Your land is one point inside Eutawville
Everything above resolves to Eutawville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 615 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Orangeburg 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 Eutawville Average
Eutawville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Eutawville
- ●One soil character for all of Eutawville
- ●Frost dates read at Eutawville's scale: Feb 23 to Dec 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eutawville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eutawville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eutawville, South Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eutawville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eutawville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eutawville average
How we know this about Eutawville
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 Orangeburg 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 Eutawville
When does frost risk typically end in Eutawville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eutawville 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 Eutawville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eutawville typically arrives around Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 17, so the watching starts about Nov 1 — about 281 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eutawville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eutawville sees about 281 frost-free days — roughly Feb 23 through Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 16 to Nov 17, about 246 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eutawville?
The federal record around Eutawville shows 145 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (94), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Eutawville?
From about Nov 1 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eutawville's scale — its 8b band and its 281-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eutawville'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 Eutawville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Eutawville's own scale — the 615 acres it covers and 145 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eutawville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 145 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eutawville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eutawville's boundary and the 615 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~281-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Eutawville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Eutawville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Eutawville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Orangeburg County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eutawville's 615 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Orangeburg County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Orangeburg 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 Orangeburg County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eutawville's 615 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eutawville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 615 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Eutawville-wide figureread your own land →