Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect tomato, sweet potato, jalapeno, and loquat to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, no two yards are alike.
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Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace — the short answer
Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, Florida: USDA zone 9b, about 300 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 9
- Clay County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 6
- Clay County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~300
- Clay County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Clay County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's 300-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
Each reading below is measured for Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBellair-Meadowbrook Terrace runs about 300 days between hard freezes (read from Clay County, the closest normal to Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace) — 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
MeasuredBellair-Meadowbrook Terrace sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace is in
Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clay County.
What Grows in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
Plants matched to Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's USDA zones 9b, 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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 6 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GATE #1145Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- CIRCLE K #2721285Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- EXXON #45896-ORANGE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- OKLAHOMA INSTALLATION COBrownfields · 2100 ft
- SEARS ROEBUCK & COBrownfields · 2200 ft
- GAYFERS DEPT STORE-MAISON BLANCHEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- ORANGE PARK MALLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- JAX ENERGY WOODSIDE- 7124Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WALGREENS STORE #5297Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- SHELL-FIRST COAST ENERGY #341Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- JAX ENERGY RIDGECREST- 7123Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PEP BOYSBrownfields · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace'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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace.
Total Sites
1,499
within ~10 miles of Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
11 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
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Your land is one point inside Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
Everything above resolves to Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 3K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Clay 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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace Average
Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
- ●One soil character for all of Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
- ●Frost dates read at Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's scale: Feb 9 to Dec 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
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How we know this about Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
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 Clay 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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace
When does frost risk typically end in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace typically lands around Feb 9, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace typically arrives around Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 22, so the watching starts about Nov 6 — about 300 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace sees about 300 frost-free days — roughly Feb 9 through Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 2 to Nov 22, about 265 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace?
The federal record around Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace is a meaningful one — 1,499 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (803), 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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace?
From about Nov 6 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's scale — its 9b band and its 300-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace'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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace’s own scale
4 of the readings below were taken at Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's own scale — the 2,626 acres it covers and 1,499 documented sites around it; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 1,499 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's boundary and the 2,626 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- The ecoregion at Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Clay County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's 2,626 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clay 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 Clay 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 Clay County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace's 2,626 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,626 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 Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace-wide figureread your own land →
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