Chokoloskee, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Chokoloskee, 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 Chokoloskee 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 Chokoloskee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Chokoloskee — the short answer
Chokoloskee, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 143 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
- 143 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 Chokoloskee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Chokoloskee'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 Chokoloskee
Each reading below is measured for Chokoloskee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredChokoloskee 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 Chokoloskee is in
Chokoloskee sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Tropical Wet Forests. That is read at Chokoloskee's own centroid rather than borrowed from Collier County.
What Grows in Chokoloskee
Every plant below cleared Chokoloskee's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Chokoloskee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Chokoloskee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PARKWAY MOTEL & MARINA OF CHOKOLOSKEE ISLND INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- OUTDOOR RESORTS OF CHOKOLOSKEEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- BLUE HERON BOAT DOCKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- EVERGLADES NATL PRK BOAT TOURS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- S OF EVERGLADES CITY ON SR-29Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- CARLOS VALDEZ SITE - EVERGLADES CITY PROPERTYBrownfields · 3.2 mi
- EVERGLADES CITYBrownfields · 3.4 mi
- GATOR EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- C - 445ANitrate · 3.5 mi
- CIRCLE K #7330Underground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- ERNEST HAMILTON STONE CRABS-JIGSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- SPEEDY JOHNSON'S AIRBOAT RIDESBrownfields · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Chokoloskee'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 Chokoloskee.
Total Sites
31
within ~10 miles of Chokoloskee
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Chokoloskee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Chokoloskee
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Chokoloskee, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 10 sites within ~10 miles of Chokoloskee. 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 Chokoloskee
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 Chokoloskee average
Your land is one point inside Chokoloskee
Everything above resolves to Chokoloskee as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 143 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 Chokoloskee Average
Chokoloskee Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Chokoloskee
- ●One soil character for all of Chokoloskee
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Chokoloskee's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Chokoloskee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Chokoloskee, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Chokoloskee averages can't show:
We read public map data around Chokoloskee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Chokoloskee average
How we know this about Chokoloskee
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 Chokoloskee
Is it too late to plant in Chokoloskee?
No — Chokoloskee 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 Chokoloskee?
It doesn't — Chokoloskee 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 Chokoloskee?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Chokoloskee 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 Chokoloskee?
The federal record around Chokoloskee is a meaningful one — 31 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (13), 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.
Everything above is measured at Chokoloskee's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Chokoloskee'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 Chokoloskee’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Chokoloskee's own scale — the 143 acres it covers and 31 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Chokoloskee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Chokoloskee — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 31 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Chokoloskee, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Chokoloskee's boundary and the 143 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Chokoloskee's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Chokoloskee'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 Chokoloskee's 143 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Collier County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Collier 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 Collier County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Chokoloskee's 143 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Chokoloskee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 143 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 Chokoloskee-wide figureread your own land →