Beacon Square, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with mango, tomato, orange, and sweet potato — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Beacon Square, 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 Beacon Square lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Beacon Square — the short answer
Beacon Square, Florida: USDA zone 10a, about 325 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 10a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 27
- Pasco County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 18
- Pasco County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~325
- Pasco County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Pasco County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 10a is Beacon Square's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beacon Square's 325-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beacon Square
Each reading below is measured for Beacon Square itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBeacon Square runs about 325 days between hard freezes (read from Pasco County, the closest normal to Beacon Square) — 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
MeasuredBeacon Square sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a.
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 Beacon Square is in
Beacon Square sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Beacon Square's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pasco County.
What Grows in Beacon Square
Plants matched to Beacon Square's USDA zones 10a, ordered by how much hardiness margin each has here — the ones with room to spare at both ends of this town's band lead. Each links to its full growing profile.
Is it too late to plant in Beacon Square?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 18 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Beacon Square
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beacon Square. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MORRISSEY CONSTRUCTION COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- DON OLSON TIRE & AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MOBIL #02A88Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 7-ELEVEN FOOD STORE #32852Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #5146Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- ICE COLD AIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- NEW PORT RICHEY NISSANUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- WINN-DIXIE #2477Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- TEXACO STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SUN TOYOTAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- TEXACO FOOD MART #113-08-24-203-1374Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- TIRES PLUS LLC #5020Brownfields · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beacon Square'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 Beacon Square.
Total Sites
1,016
within ~10 miles of Beacon Square
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beacon Square
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beacon Square
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beacon Square, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 306 sites within ~10 miles of Beacon Square. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Beacon Square
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 Beacon Square average
Your land is one point inside Beacon Square
Everything above resolves to Beacon Square as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Pasco 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 Beacon Square Average
Beacon Square Average
- ●USDA Zones 10a, averaged across Beacon Square
- ●One soil character for all of Beacon Square
- ●Frost dates read at Beacon Square's scale: Jan 27 to Dec 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beacon Square's 10a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beacon Square
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beacon Square, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beacon Square averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beacon Square — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beacon Square average
How we know this about Beacon Square
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 Pasco 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 Beacon Square
When does frost risk typically end in Beacon Square?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beacon Square typically lands around Jan 27, 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 Feb 17.
When is the first frost in Beacon Square?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beacon Square typically arrives around Dec 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 4, so the watching starts about Nov 18 — about 325 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beacon Square?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beacon Square sees about 325 frost-free days — roughly Jan 27 through Dec 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 17 to Dec 4, about 290 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beacon Square?
The federal record around Beacon Square is a meaningful one — 1,016 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (399), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Beacon Square?
From about Nov 18 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 Dec 18 (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 Dec 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beacon Square's scale — its 10a band and its 325-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beacon Square'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 Beacon Square’s own scale
4 of the readings below were taken at Beacon Square's own scale — the 1,295 acres it covers and 1,016 documented sites around it; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beacon Square's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 1,016 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beacon Square, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beacon Square's boundary and the 1,295 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- The ecoregion at Beacon Square's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Beacon Square has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Pasco County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beacon Square's 1,295 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pasco County
- The candidate plant list — Florida's curated set, filtered to this zone band and re-ordered by how much margin each has herefrom Florida
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pasco County
- The growing challenges every Florida grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Florida
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Pasco County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beacon Square's 1,295 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beacon Square you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,295 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Beacon Square-wide figureread your own land →
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