Wedgefield, South Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Wedgefield, 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 Wedgefield lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Wedgefield — the short answer
Wedgefield, South Carolina: USDA zone 8b, about 265 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 8
- Sumter County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 28
- Sumter County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~265
- Sumter County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Sumter County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Wedgefield's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Wedgefield's 265-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Wedgefield
Each reading below is measured for Wedgefield itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWedgefield runs about 265 days between hard freezes (read from Sumter County, the closest normal to Wedgefield) — 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
MeasuredWedgefield 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 Wedgefield is in
Wedgefield sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Wedgefield's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sumter County.
What Grows in Wedgefield
Every plant below cleared Wedgefield's own zone 8b and its 265-day season. Each card opens that plant's South Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Wedgefield?
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 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 28 — 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 Wedgefield
Survey cells within 31 miles of Wedgefield checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 113 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Wedgefield
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Wedgefield. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SHREE VALLABH LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- BURRESS STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- WEDGEFIELD STATEBURG WATER DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- BATTENS OF WEDGEFIELD II INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CREECH SEED ORCHARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- SUMTER SCHOOL BUS SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- TILGHMAN NURSERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- US DOD USAF POINSETT ELECTRONIC COMBAT RANGEToxics Release Inventory · 3.3 mi
- US DOD USAF POINSETT ELECTRONIC COMBAT RANGESuperfund · 3.3 mi
- US DOD USAF POINSETT ELECTRONIC COMBAT RANGEBrownfields · 3.3 mi
- WILLIAM F MCINTOSH JRUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- SPANNS MARKET & GRILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Wedgefield'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 Wedgefield.
Total Sites
298
within ~10 miles of Wedgefield
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Wedgefield
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Wedgefield
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Wedgefield, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Wedgefield — Toxics Release Inventory (27 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Wedgefield
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 Wedgefield average
Your land is one point inside Wedgefield
Everything above resolves to Wedgefield as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 5K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Sumter 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 Wedgefield Average
Wedgefield Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Wedgefield
- ●One soil character for all of Wedgefield
- ●Frost dates read at Wedgefield's scale: Mar 8 to Nov 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Wedgefield's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Wedgefield
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Wedgefield, South Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Wedgefield averages can't show:
We read public map data around Wedgefield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Wedgefield average
How we know this about Wedgefield
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 Sumter 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 Wedgefield
When does frost risk typically end in Wedgefield?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Wedgefield 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 Wedgefield?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Wedgefield 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 265 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Wedgefield?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Wedgefield sees about 265 frost-free days — roughly Mar 8 through Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 29 to Nov 14, about 230 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Wedgefield?
The federal record around Wedgefield is a meaningful one — 298 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (161), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Wedgefield?
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 Wedgefield's scale — its 8b band and its 265-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Wedgefield'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 Wedgefield’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Wedgefield's own scale — the 5,443 acres it covers and 298 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Wedgefield's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 298 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Wedgefield, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Wedgefield's boundary and the 5,443 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~265-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Wedgefield's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Wedgefield checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Wedgefield has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Sumter County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Wedgefield's 5,443 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sumter County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sumter 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 Sumter County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Wedgefield's 5,443 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Wedgefield you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,443 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Wedgefield-wide figureread your own land →
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