Greeleyville, South Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Greeleyville, 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 Greeleyville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Greeleyville — the short answer
Greeleyville, South Carolina: USDA zone 8b, about 266 days between hard freezes, across 783 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 7
- Williamsburg County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 28
- Williamsburg County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~266
- Williamsburg County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 783 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 Williamsburg County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Greeleyville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Greeleyville's 266-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Greeleyville
Each reading below is measured for Greeleyville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsGreeleyville runs about 266 days between hard freezes (read from Williamsburg County, the closest normal to Greeleyville) — 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
MeasuredGreeleyville 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 Greeleyville is in
Greeleyville sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Greeleyville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Williamsburg County.
What Grows in Greeleyville
Every plant below cleared Greeleyville's own zone 8b and its 266-day season. Each card opens that plant's South Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Greeleyville?
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 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
Documented around Greeleyville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Greeleyville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 129 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Greeleyville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Greeleyville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 521 MONEY SAVERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- WL- 64Nitrate · 1700 ft
- FARMERS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- GREELEYVILLE SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- OLD GREELEYVILLE 66 SERVICE STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- WACO PROPERTIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- WILDER BROTHERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- PRAYOSHA GREELEYVILLE LLC DBA 263 MONEYSAVERUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- GREELEYVLLE TELEPHONE EXCHANGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- NEWELL MYERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- PERKINS QUICK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- 52 STATION GREELEYVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Greeleyville'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 Greeleyville.
Total Sites
44
within ~10 miles of Greeleyville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Greeleyville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Greeleyville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Greeleyville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 32 sites within ~10 miles of Greeleyville. 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 Greeleyville
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 Greeleyville average
Your land is one point inside Greeleyville
Everything above resolves to Greeleyville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 783 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Williamsburg 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 Greeleyville Average
Greeleyville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Greeleyville
- ●One soil character for all of Greeleyville
- ●Frost dates read at Greeleyville's scale: Mar 7 to Nov 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Greeleyville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Greeleyville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Greeleyville, South Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Greeleyville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Greeleyville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Greeleyville average
How we know this about Greeleyville
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 Williamsburg 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 Greeleyville
When does frost risk typically end in Greeleyville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Greeleyville typically lands around Mar 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Greeleyville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Greeleyville typically arrives around Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 14, so the watching starts about Oct 29 — about 266 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Greeleyville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Greeleyville sees about 266 frost-free days — roughly Mar 7 through Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 28 to Nov 14, about 231 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Greeleyville?
The federal record around Greeleyville shows 44 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (32), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Greeleyville?
From about Oct 29 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Greeleyville's scale — its 8b band and its 266-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Greeleyville'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 Greeleyville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Greeleyville's own scale — the 783 acres it covers and 44 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Greeleyville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 44 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Greeleyville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Greeleyville's boundary and the 783 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~266-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Greeleyville's own centroid, the Middle Atlantic Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Greeleyville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Greeleyville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Williamsburg County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Greeleyville's 783 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Williamsburg County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Williamsburg 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 Williamsburg County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Greeleyville's 783 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Greeleyville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 783 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 Greeleyville-wide figureread your own land →