Maywood, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Maywood, 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 Maywood lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Maywood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Maywood — the short answer
Maywood, California: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 750 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 10b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Killing freeze
- None on record
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
- City area
- 750 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. The year-round finding is measured — a 30-year record with no 28°F killing freeze in it — never inferred from missing dates.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 10b is Maywood's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Maywood's no killing freeze on record, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Maywood
Each reading below is measured for Maywood itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMaywood sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b.
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 Maywood is in
Maywood sits in the Southern California/Northern Baja Coast — EPA Level III, inside the wider Mediterranean California. That is read at Maywood's own centroid rather than borrowed from Los Angeles County.
What Grows in Maywood
Every plant below cleared Maywood's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's California profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Maywood
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Maywood. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MAYWOOD MUTUAL WATER CO. #1PFAS · 25 ft
- MAYWOOD MUTUAL WATER CO. #2PFAS · 25 ft
- MAYWOOD MUTUAL WATER CO. #3PFAS · 25 ft
- O'REILLY AUTO PARTS STORE 3061Brownfields · 400 ft
- TEJAL CLEANERSBrownfields · 400 ft
- O'REILLY AUTO PARTS #3061Brownfields · 450 ft
- LA USD FISHBURN ELBrownfields · 700 ft
- MAYWOOD SHELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- WESTERN DENTAL SERVICES INCBrownfields · 700 ft
- MAYWOOD SHELLBrownfields · 700 ft
- Phenomena IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- PHENOMENA INCBrownfields · 850 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Maywood'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 Maywood.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Maywood
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Maywood
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Maywood, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 16,082 sites within ~10 miles of Maywood. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Maywood
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 Maywood average
Your land is one point inside Maywood
Everything above resolves to Maywood as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 750 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 city 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 Maywood Average
Maywood Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Maywood
- ●One soil character for all of Maywood
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Maywood's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Maywood
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Maywood, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Maywood averages can't show:
We read public map data around Maywood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Maywood average
How we know this about Maywood
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals, with the labelled statewide window where none resolves; 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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Maywood
Is it too late to plant in Maywood?
No — Maywood has no 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record, so the growing season is year-round and there is no last-frost date to wait for. Planting is paced by rainfall, heat and daylength instead of by frost: start heat-lovers any month, and time cool-season crops (lettuce, brassicas, peas) for the cooler, wetter half of the year or for higher ground. Succession sowing every few weeks works all year, so the limit is what you can keep watered and harvested, not the calendar.
When does frost risk typically end in Maywood?
It doesn't — Maywood records no 28°F killing freeze at all across the 1991–2020 station record, so there is no spring frost date to plant after. Cold still matters with elevation: the higher you garden, the cooler the nights, and a few tropical crops sulk below about 60°F even where they never freeze.
How long is the growing season in Maywood?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Maywood contains no 28°F killing freeze, so there is no season to measure between freezes. What paces planting instead is heat, rainfall and daylength: the hottest, wettest stretch is the hard part for cool-season crops, not winter. Elevation is the one real exception — the higher you garden, the colder the nights get.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Maywood?
The federal record around Maywood runs heavier than most — 18,685 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (16,082), the nearest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
Everything above is measured at Maywood's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Maywood'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 Maywood’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Maywood's own scale — the 750 acres it covers and 18,685 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Maywood's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Maywood — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 18,685 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Maywood, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Maywood's boundary and the 750 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Maywood's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Maywood's own centroid, the Southern California/Northern Baja CoastUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Maywood's 750 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Los Angeles County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Los Angeles County
- The growing challenges every California grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom California
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Los Angeles County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Maywood's 750 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Maywood you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 750 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS 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 Maywood-wide figureread your own land →