Bradfordville, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bradfordville, 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 Bradfordville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bradfordville — the short answer
Bradfordville, Florida: USDA zone 9a, about 296 days between hard freezes, across 13K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 15
- Leon County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 8
- Leon County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~296
- Leon County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 13K 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 Leon County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Bradfordville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bradfordville's 296-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bradfordville
Each reading below is measured for Bradfordville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBradfordville runs about 296 days between hard freezes (read from Leon County, the closest normal to Bradfordville) — 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
MeasuredBradfordville sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Bradfordville is in
Bradfordville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bradfordville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Leon County.
What Grows in Bradfordville
Every plant below cleared Bradfordville's own zone 9a and its 296-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bradfordville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 8 — 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 Bradfordville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bradfordville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CHILES HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 2200 ft
- TARGET STORE T1973Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKET #533Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- GOODWILL INDUSTRIESBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- PAWS & CLAWS VETERINARY HOSPITALBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- BLOOMS BY ELLENUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #17089Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- WALGREENS STORE #1902Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- CHEVRON - BRADFORDVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- SUPER LUBE #118Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- AUTO SUPER SERVICE CENTER #203Brownfields · 1.2 mi
- CIRCLE K #2705172Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bradfordville'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 Bradfordville.
Total Sites
436
within ~10 miles of Bradfordville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bradfordville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bradfordville
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.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Bradfordville
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Bradfordville
Everything above resolves to Bradfordville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 13K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Leon 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 Bradfordville Average
Bradfordville Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Bradfordville
- ●One soil character for all of Bradfordville
- ●Frost dates read at Bradfordville's scale: Feb 15 to Dec 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bradfordville's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bradfordville
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We read public map data around Bradfordville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bradfordville average
How we know this about Bradfordville
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 Leon 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 Bradfordville
When does frost risk typically end in Bradfordville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bradfordville typically lands around Feb 15, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Bradfordville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bradfordville typically arrives around Dec 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 24, so the watching starts about Nov 8 — about 296 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bradfordville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bradfordville sees about 296 frost-free days — roughly Feb 15 through Dec 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 8 to Nov 24, about 261 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bradfordville?
The federal record around Bradfordville is a meaningful one — 436 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (250), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.4 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 Bradfordville?
From about Nov 8 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bradfordville's scale — its 9a band and its 296-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bradfordville'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 Bradfordville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Bradfordville's own scale — the 13,295 acres it covers and 436 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bradfordville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 436 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bradfordville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bradfordville's boundary and the 13,295 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~296-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bradfordville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Bradfordville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Leon County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bradfordville's 13,295 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Leon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Leon 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 Leon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bradfordville's 13,295 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bradfordville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 13,295 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 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 Bradfordville-wide figureread your own land →