Manville, South Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Manville, 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 Manville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Manville — the short answer
Manville, South Carolina: USDA zone 8b, about 262 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 9
- Lee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- Lee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~262
- Lee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Lee County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Manville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Manville's 262-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Manville
Each reading below is measured for Manville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsManville runs about 262 days between hard freezes (read from Lee County, the closest normal to Manville) — 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
MeasuredManville 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 Manville is in
Manville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Manville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lee County.
What Grows in Manville
Every plant below cleared Manville's own zone 8b and its 262-day season. Each card opens that plant's South Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Manville?
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 Feb 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — 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 Manville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Manville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 97 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Manville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Manville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OHM CORPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- B&H MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- ATKINSON GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SANTEE COOPER LEE COUNTY LANDFILLBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- PILOT 4581Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- C S ELMORE & SONS FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- SPRING HILL R SC3510Underground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- DOLLY BROWN PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- HOUSERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- BAKERS SALVAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- A&G ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- QUICK MART 3 INTERSTATE SHELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Manville'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 Manville.
Total Sites
129
within ~10 miles of Manville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Manville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Manville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Manville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 105 sites within ~10 miles of Manville. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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.
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Your land is one point inside Manville
Everything above resolves to Manville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Lee 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 Manville Average
Manville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Manville
- ●One soil character for all of Manville
- ●Frost dates read at Manville's scale: Mar 9 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Manville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Manville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Manville, South Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Manville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Manville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Manville average
How we know this about Manville
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 Lee 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 Manville
When does frost risk typically end in Manville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Manville typically lands around Mar 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Manville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Manville typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 262 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Manville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Manville sees about 262 frost-free days — roughly Mar 9 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 30 to Nov 12, about 227 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Manville?
The federal record around Manville is a meaningful one — 129 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (105), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Manville?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Manville's scale — its 8b band and its 262-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Manville'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 Manville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Manville's own scale — the 1,740 acres it covers and 129 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Manville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 129 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Manville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Manville's boundary and the 1,740 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~262-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Manville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Manville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Manville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Lee County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Manville's 1,740 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lee 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 Lee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Manville's 1,740 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Manville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,740 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 Manville-wide figureread your own land →
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