Woodfield, South Carolina, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Woodfield, 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 Woodfield lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Woodfield — the short answer
Woodfield, South Carolina: USDA zone 8b, about 272 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 3
- Richland County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 30
- Richland County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~272
- Richland 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 Richland County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Woodfield's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodfield's 272-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodfield
Each reading below is measured for Woodfield itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWoodfield runs about 272 days between hard freezes (read from Richland County, the closest normal to Woodfield) — 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
MeasuredWoodfield 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 Woodfield is in
Woodfield sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodfield's own centroid rather than borrowed from Richland County.
What Grows in Woodfield
Every plant below cleared Woodfield's own zone 8b and its 272-day season. Each card opens that plant's South Carolina profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodfield?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 30 — 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 Woodfield
Survey cells within 31 miles of Woodfield checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 99 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodfield
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodfield. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LUCKY SEVEN #4Underground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- RICHLAND NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL ADDITIONS & RENOVATIONSBrownfields · 2400 ft
- RICHLAND NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- US AIR FORCE MCENTIRE AIR NATIONAL GUARDToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- PANTRY EXPRESS 600Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PERCIVAL ROAD CITGO S STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- FOOD FARE 2Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- FOODMARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- STERLINGS 150 CLEANERSBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- SAI LILA LLC DBA EAGLE EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- GASLO 745Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- AY MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodfield'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 Woodfield.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodfield
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodfield
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodfield, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 1,003 sites within ~10 miles of Woodfield. 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.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Woodfield
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 Woodfield average
Your land is one point inside Woodfield
Everything above resolves to Woodfield as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Richland 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 Woodfield Average
Woodfield Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Woodfield
- ●One soil character for all of Woodfield
- ●Frost dates read at Woodfield's scale: Mar 3 to Nov 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodfield's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodfield
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodfield, South Carolina — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodfield averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodfield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodfield average
How we know this about Woodfield
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 Richland 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 Woodfield
When does frost risk typically end in Woodfield?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodfield typically lands around Mar 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Woodfield?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodfield typically arrives around Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 16, so the watching starts about Oct 31 — about 272 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodfield?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodfield sees about 272 frost-free days — roughly Mar 3 through Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 24 to Nov 16, about 237 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodfield?
The federal record around Woodfield is a meaningful one — 1,632 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,003), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Woodfield?
From about Oct 31 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodfield's scale — its 8b band and its 272-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodfield'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 Woodfield’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Woodfield's own scale — the 1,743 acres it covers and 1,632 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodfield's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 1,632 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodfield, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodfield's boundary and the 1,743 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~272-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodfield's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Woodfield checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Woodfield has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Richland County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodfield's 1,743 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Richland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Richland 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 Richland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodfield's 1,743 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodfield you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,743 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Woodfield-wide figureread your own land →