Coral Springs, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Coral Springs, 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 Coral Springs 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 Coral Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Coral Springs — the short answer
Coral Springs, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 15K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 10b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Killing freeze
- None on record
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
- City area
- 15K 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 Coral Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Coral Springs'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 Coral Springs
Each reading below is measured for Coral Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCoral Springs 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 Coral Springs is in
Coral Springs sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Tropical Wet Forests. That is read at Coral Springs's own centroid rather than borrowed from Broward County.
What Grows in Coral Springs
Every plant below cleared Coral Springs's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Coral Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Coral Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BROWARD CNTY-STEPHEN BOOHER REHAB BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- GENESISCARE USA OF FLORIDA LLCBrownfields · 950 ft
- EGLE VALET CLEANERS INCBrownfields · 1200 ft
- CORAL SPRINGS MEDICAL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- ROYAL WATERWORKS, INCPFAS · 1400 ft
- CORAL SPRINGS, CITY OFPFAS · 1400 ft
- UNIVERSAL CLEANERSBrownfields · 1600 ft
- BAPTIST ENDOSCOPY CENTER AT CORAL SPRINGSBrownfields · 1800 ft
- CORAL SPRINGS MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY INCBrownfields · 1900 ft
- EAGLE CLEANERSBrownfields · 2100 ft
- CORAL SPRINGS -MULLINS PARK BOOSTER STUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #5084Brownfields · 2400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Coral Springs'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 Coral Springs.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Coral Springs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Coral Springs
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 Coral Springs
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 Coral Springs average
Your land is one point inside Coral Springs
Everything above resolves to Coral Springs as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 15K 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 city 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 Coral Springs Average
Coral Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Coral Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Coral Springs
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Coral Springs's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Coral Springs
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Coral Springs, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Coral Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Coral Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Coral Springs average
How we know this about Coral Springs
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Coral Springs
Is it too late to plant in Coral Springs?
No — Coral Springs 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 Coral Springs?
It doesn't — Coral Springs 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 Coral Springs?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Coral Springs 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 Coral Springs?
The federal record around Coral Springs runs heavier than most — 2,391 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,019), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
Everything above is measured at Coral Springs's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Coral Springs'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 Coral Springs’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Coral Springs's own scale — the 14,633 acres it covers and 2,391 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Coral Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Coral Springs — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 2,391 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Coral Springs, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Coral Springs's boundary and the 14,633 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Coral Springs's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Coral Springs'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 Coral Springs's 14,633 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Broward County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Broward 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 Broward County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Coral Springs's 14,633 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Coral Springs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 14,633 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Coral Springs-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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