Egypt Lake-Leto, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Egypt Lake-Leto, 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 Egypt Lake-Leto 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 Egypt Lake-Leto — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Egypt Lake-Leto — the short answer
Egypt Lake-Leto, Florida: USDA zone 10a, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 10a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Killing freeze
- None on record
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
- Town area
- 4K 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 10a is Egypt Lake-Leto's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Egypt Lake-Leto'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 Egypt Lake-Leto
Each reading below is measured for Egypt Lake-Leto itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredEgypt Lake-Leto sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a.
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 Egypt Lake-Leto is in
Egypt Lake-Leto sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Egypt Lake-Leto's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hillsborough County.
What Grows in Egypt Lake-Leto
Every plant below cleared Egypt Lake-Leto's own zone 10a. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Egypt Lake-Leto
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Egypt Lake-Leto. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BILL CURRIE IMPORT MOTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- SHOOTING SPORTS INCBrownfields · 950 ft
- HOUSE CYCLE WORLD INCBrownfields · 1000 ft
- 7-ELEVEN FOOD STORE #23741Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- UNITED 500 #512Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- FLORIDA HOSPITAL - CARROLLWOODBrownfields · 1400 ft
- WALMART SUPERCENTER #5220Brownfields · 1500 ft
- ECONO AUTO PAINTINGBrownfields · 2000 ft
- SEA FOX BOATS OF TAMPA BAYBrownfields · 2000 ft
- BUCCANEER CAR WASH INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- CIRCLE K #7039Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- CHEVRON #42228-J&BUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Egypt Lake-Leto'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 Egypt Lake-Leto.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Egypt Lake-Leto
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Egypt Lake-Leto
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Egypt Lake-Leto, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 53 sites within ~10 miles of Egypt Lake-Leto. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Egypt Lake-Leto
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 Egypt Lake-Leto average
Your land is one point inside Egypt Lake-Leto
Everything above resolves to Egypt Lake-Leto as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Egypt Lake-Leto Average
Egypt Lake-Leto Average
- ●USDA Zones 10a, averaged across Egypt Lake-Leto
- ●One soil character for all of Egypt Lake-Leto
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Egypt Lake-Leto's 10a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Egypt Lake-Leto
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Egypt Lake-Leto, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Egypt Lake-Leto averages can't show:
We read public map data around Egypt Lake-Leto — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Egypt Lake-Leto average
How we know this about Egypt Lake-Leto
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 Egypt Lake-Leto
Is it too late to plant in Egypt Lake-Leto?
No — Egypt Lake-Leto 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 Egypt Lake-Leto?
It doesn't — Egypt Lake-Leto 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 Egypt Lake-Leto?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Egypt Lake-Leto 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 Egypt Lake-Leto?
The federal record around Egypt Lake-Leto runs heavier than most — 3,766 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (2,002), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Egypt Lake-Leto's scale — its 10a band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Egypt Lake-Leto'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 Egypt Lake-Leto’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Egypt Lake-Leto's own scale — the 3,792 acres it covers and 3,766 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Egypt Lake-Leto's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10aUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Egypt Lake-Leto — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 3,766 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Egypt Lake-Leto, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Egypt Lake-Leto's boundary and the 3,792 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Egypt Lake-Leto's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Egypt Lake-Leto's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Egypt Lake-Leto's 3,792 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hillsborough County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hillsborough 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 Hillsborough County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Egypt Lake-Leto's 3,792 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Egypt Lake-Leto you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,792 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Egypt Lake-Leto-wide figureread your own land →
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