Lake Worth Beach, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lake Worth 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 Lake Worth Beach 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 Lake Worth Beach — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lake Worth Beach — the short answer
Lake Worth Beach, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 4K 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
- 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 10b is Lake Worth Beach's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lake Worth 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 Lake Worth Beach
Each reading below is measured for Lake Worth Beach itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredLake Worth Beach 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 Lake Worth Beach is in
Lake Worth Beach sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Tropical Wet Forests. That is read at Lake Worth Beach's own centroid rather than borrowed from Palm Beach County.
What Grows in Lake Worth Beach
Every plant below cleared Lake Worth Beach's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Lake Worth Beach
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lake Worth Beach. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TONYS PAINT & BODY SHOPBrownfields · 400 ft
- 7-ELEVEN STORE #40338Underground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- FORMER PALM SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- PUBLIX #1384Brownfields · 600 ft
- A 1 PAINTBrownfields · 750 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #3964Brownfields · 1000 ft
- FIBERGLASS SALES & PRODUCTSBrownfields · 1100 ft
- ALANIS BODY & MECHANIC SHOP INCBrownfields · 1300 ft
- BELLSOUTH WPBHFLLW E8801Brownfields · 1400 ft
- J L G AUTO REPAIR INCBrownfields · 1500 ft
- BP #00370312Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- BELLSOUTH TEL INC #E8801 WPBHFLWUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lake Worth 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 Lake Worth Beach.
Total Sites
2,149
within ~10 miles of Lake Worth Beach
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
8 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lake Worth Beach
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lake Worth 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 Lake Worth 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 Lake Worth Beach average
Your land is one point inside Lake Worth Beach
Everything above resolves to Lake Worth Beach 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 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 Lake Worth Beach Average
Lake Worth Beach Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Lake Worth Beach
- ●One soil character for all of Lake Worth Beach
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lake Worth Beach's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lake Worth Beach
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lake Worth Beach, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lake Worth Beach averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lake Worth Beach — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lake Worth Beach average
How we know this about Lake Worth 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 Lake Worth Beach
Is it too late to plant in Lake Worth Beach?
No — Lake Worth 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 Lake Worth Beach?
It doesn't — Lake Worth 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 Lake Worth Beach?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Lake Worth 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 Lake Worth Beach?
The federal record around Lake Worth Beach is a meaningful one — 2,149 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,108), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lake Worth Beach's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Lake Worth 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 Lake Worth Beach’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lake Worth Beach's own scale — the 3,772 acres it covers and 2,149 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lake Worth Beach's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Lake Worth Beach — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 2,149 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lake Worth Beach, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lake Worth Beach's boundary and the 3,772 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Lake Worth Beach's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lake Worth 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 Lake Worth Beach's 3,772 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 Lake Worth Beach's 3,772 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lake Worth 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 3,772 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Lake Worth Beach-wide figureread your own land →