Canal Point, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Canal Point, 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 Canal Point 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 Canal Point — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Canal Point — the short answer
Canal Point, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 891 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 10b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Killing freeze
- None on record
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
- Town area
- 891 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 Canal Point's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Canal Point'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 Canal Point
Each reading below is measured for Canal Point itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCanal Point 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 Canal Point is in
Canal Point sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Tropical Wet Forests. That is read at Canal Point's own centroid rather than borrowed from Palm Beach County.
What Grows in Canal Point
Every plant below cleared Canal Point's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Canal Point
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Canal Point. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KE CUNNINGHAM CANAL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBrownfields · 2600 ft
- CYPRESS HAMMOCK CANAL POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- USDA ARS FL SUGARCANE FIELD STNBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- GULF STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- TEXACO INC-PAHOKEEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PALM BEACH CNTY SCHOOL BD-CANAL POINT ELEMUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PB - 415Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- ICEHOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- TOWNSTAR #44Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- JONES CO INC S MUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- US SUGAR CORP-BRYANT FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- U S SUGAR CORP BRYANT MILLToxics Release Inventory · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Canal Point'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 Canal Point.
Total Sites
119
within ~10 miles of Canal Point
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Canal Point
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Canal Point
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Canal Point, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 48 sites within ~10 miles of Canal Point. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Canal Point
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 Canal Point average
Your land is one point inside Canal Point
Everything above resolves to Canal Point as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 891 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 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 Canal Point Average
Canal Point Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Canal Point
- ●One soil character for all of Canal Point
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Canal Point's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Canal Point
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Canal Point, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Canal Point averages can't show:
We read public map data around Canal Point — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Canal Point average
How we know this about Canal Point
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, 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 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 Canal Point
Is it too late to plant in Canal Point?
No — Canal Point 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 Canal Point?
It doesn't — Canal Point 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 Canal Point?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Canal Point 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 Canal Point?
The federal record around Canal Point is a meaningful one — 119 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (55), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.5 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.
Everything above is measured at Canal Point's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Canal Point'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 Canal Point’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Canal Point's own scale — the 891 acres it covers and 119 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Canal Point's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Canal Point — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 119 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Canal Point, the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Canal Point's boundary and the 891 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Canal Point's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Canal Point's own centroid, the Southern Florida Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Canal Point's 891 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Palm Beach County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Canal Point's 891 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Canal Point you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 891 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 Canal Point-wide figureread your own land →