Pageland, South Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Pageland, 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 Pageland lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pageland — the short answer
Pageland, South Carolina: USDA zone 8a, about 264 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~264
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Pageland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pageland's 264-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pageland
Each reading below is measured for Pageland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPageland runs about 264 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredPageland 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 Pageland is in
Pageland sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pageland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Chesterfield County.
What Grows in Pageland
Every plant below cleared Pageland's own zone 8a and its 264-day season. Each card opens that plant's South Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pageland?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 27 — 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 Pageland
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pageland checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 56 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pageland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pageland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PAGELAND SECTION SHEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- PAGELAND SCREEN PRINTERS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- SC DOT PAGELAND SECTION SHEDBrownfields · 1000 ft
- DAVITA-PAGELAND DIALYSISBrownfields · 1400 ft
- CHALLENGER ELECTRIC COMPANYToxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
- CHALLENGER ELECTRIC COMPANYBrownfields · 1500 ft
- PAGELAND SCREEN PRINTERS INCSuperfund · 1500 ft
- PAGELAND SCREEN PRINTERS INCToxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
- PAGELAND AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- AALBERTS INTEGRATED PIPING SYSTEM AMERICBrownfields · 1500 ft
- CAROLINA SCRAP IRON & METALToxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
- DANNY MELTON AMOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pageland'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 Pageland.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pageland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pageland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pageland, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pageland — Underground Storage Tanks (96 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (8 sites). 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.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Pageland
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 Pageland
Everything above resolves to Pageland as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Pageland Average
Pageland Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Pageland
- ●One soil character for all of Pageland
- ●Frost dates read at Pageland's scale: Mar 8 to Nov 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pageland's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pageland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pageland, South Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pageland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pageland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Pageland
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 Pageland’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 Pageland
When does frost risk typically end in Pageland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pageland typically lands around Mar 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Pageland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pageland typically arrives around Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 13, so the watching starts about Oct 28 — about 264 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pageland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pageland sees about 264 frost-free days — roughly Mar 8 through Nov 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 29 to Nov 13, about 229 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pageland?
The federal record around Pageland is a meaningful one — 126 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (96), 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 Pageland?
From about Oct 28 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pageland's scale — its 8a band and its 264-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pageland'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 Pageland’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pageland's own scale — its own ~264-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,108 acres it covers and 126 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pageland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pageland's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 8 and Nov 27 and the ~264-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 126 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pageland, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pageland's boundary and the 3,108 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~264-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pageland's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pageland 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 Pageland's 3,108 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Chesterfield County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pageland's 3,108 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pageland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,108 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 Pageland-wide figureread your own land →
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