Deerfield Beach, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 11a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, artichoke, starfruit, allspice, and cabbage all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Deerfield Beach, 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 Deerfield Beach lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Deerfield Beach — the short answer
Deerfield Beach, Florida: USDA zone 11a, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 10K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 11a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Killing freeze
- None on record
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
- City area
- 10K 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 11a is Deerfield Beach's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Deerfield Beach'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 Deerfield Beach
Each reading below is measured for Deerfield Beach itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredDeerfield Beach sits in USDA hardiness zone 11a.
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 Deerfield Beach is in
Deerfield Beach sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Tropical Wet Forests. That is read at Deerfield Beach's own centroid rather than borrowed from Broward County.
What Grows in Deerfield Beach
Every plant below cleared Deerfield Beach's own zone 11a. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Deerfield Beach
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Deerfield Beach. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MINIMATIC INCBrownfields · 650 ft
- S -2262Nitrate · 1000 ft
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS DEERFIELD DISTRIBUTION CENTERToxics Release Inventory · 1100 ft
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS DEERFIELD DISTRIBUTION CENTERBrownfields · 1100 ft
- DEERFIELD BEACH CITY-WEST WTPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- DEERFIELD BEACH CITY-WELL #18Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- LIST INDUSTRIES INCToxics Release Inventory · 1800 ft
- LIST INDUSTRIES INCBrownfields · 1800 ft
- GUARDIAN PHARMACY OF SOUTHEAST FLORIDABrownfields · 1900 ft
- 1 PRICE DRY CLEANINGBrownfields · 1900 ft
- SUN-SENTINEL COMPANY, LLCToxics Release Inventory · 2000 ft
- CHEM TEC EQUIPMENT COBrownfields · 2000 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Deerfield Beach'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 Deerfield Beach.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Deerfield Beach
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Deerfield Beach
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 Deerfield Beach
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 Deerfield Beach average
Your land is one point inside Deerfield Beach
Everything above resolves to Deerfield Beach as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 10K 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 Deerfield Beach Average
Deerfield Beach Average
- ●USDA Zones 11a, averaged across Deerfield Beach
- ●One soil character for all of Deerfield Beach
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Deerfield Beach's 11a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Deerfield Beach
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Deerfield Beach, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Deerfield Beach averages can't show:
We read public map data around Deerfield Beach — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Deerfield Beach average
How we know this about Deerfield Beach
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 Deerfield Beach
Is it too late to plant in Deerfield Beach?
No — Deerfield Beach 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 Deerfield Beach?
It doesn't — Deerfield Beach 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 Deerfield Beach?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Deerfield Beach 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 Deerfield Beach?
The federal record around Deerfield Beach runs heavier than most — 2,682 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,256), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles 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 Deerfield Beach's scale — its 11a band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Deerfield Beach'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 Deerfield Beach’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Deerfield Beach's own scale — the 9,576 acres it covers and 2,682 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Deerfield Beach's own USDA hardiness band, zones 11aUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Deerfield Beach — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 2,682 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Deerfield Beach, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Deerfield Beach's boundary and the 9,576 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Deerfield Beach's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Deerfield Beach'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 Deerfield Beach's 9,576 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 Deerfield Beach's 9,576 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Deerfield Beach you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 9,576 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Deerfield Beach-wide figureread your own land →
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