Fingerville, South Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — 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 Fingerville, 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 Fingerville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Fingerville — the short answer
Fingerville, South Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 237 days between hard freezes, across 156 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~237
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 156 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 8a is Fingerville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fingerville's 237-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fingerville
Each reading below is measured for Fingerville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFingerville runs about 237 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
MeasuredFingerville sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Fingerville is in
Fingerville sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Fingerville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Spartanburg County.
What Grows in Fingerville
Every plant below cleared Fingerville's own zone 8a and its 237-day season. Each card opens that plant's South Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fingerville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Fingerville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Fingerville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 45 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Fingerville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fingerville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DONS QUICK SHOP OFFICESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- H & N STOP N GO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- TIMS QUICK SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- ONEITA INDUSTRIES:FINGERVILLE-CLOSEDToxics Release Inventory · 1.0 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #10710Brownfields · 1.5 mi
- DIXIE GEM SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- OM GAYATRI INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- FREEDOM STOP 2Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- JCS PLACEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- R B SIMMS WATER TREATMENT PLANTBrownfields · 2.4 mi
- WILSONS CORNER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- MAX BRIANUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fingerville'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 Fingerville.
Total Sites
315
within ~10 miles of Fingerville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fingerville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fingerville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fingerville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 32 sites within ~10 miles of Fingerville. 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.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Fingerville
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 Fingerville average
Your land is one point inside Fingerville
Everything above resolves to Fingerville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 156 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 Fingerville Average
Fingerville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Fingerville
- ●One soil character for all of Fingerville
- ●Frost dates read at Fingerville's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fingerville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fingerville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fingerville, South Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fingerville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fingerville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fingerville average
How we know this about Fingerville
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 Fingerville’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 Fingerville
When does frost risk typically end in Fingerville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fingerville typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Fingerville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fingerville typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 237 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fingerville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fingerville sees about 237 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Oct 29, about 202 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fingerville?
The federal record around Fingerville is a meaningful one — 315 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (182), 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 Fingerville?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fingerville's scale — its 8a band and its 237-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fingerville'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 Fingerville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Fingerville's own scale — its own ~237-day season between 28°F freezes, the 156 acres it covers and 315 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fingerville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fingerville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 12 and the ~237-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 315 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fingerville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fingerville's boundary and the 156 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~237-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Fingerville's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Fingerville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Fingerville's 156 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Spartanburg County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fingerville's 156 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fingerville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 156 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 Fingerville-wide figureread your own land →