Mango, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Mango, 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 Mango lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mango — the short answer
Mango, Florida: USDA zone 9b, about 337 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~337
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Mango's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mango's 337-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mango
Each reading below is measured for Mango itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMango runs about 337 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMango sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
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 Mango is in
Mango sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mango's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hillsborough County.
What Grows in Mango
Every plant below cleared Mango's own zone 9b and its 337-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mango?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Mango
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mango. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MARATHON-MANGO #448Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- BONDED COMFORT DISTRIBUTORS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- DES CHAMPS TRUCKING COUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- HILLSBOROUGH CNTY WRS-CLAY PIT RDUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- PARKER & SONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MERIDIAN TWOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CAMPO PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- WAL-MART #925Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- BRANDON 21 NEAR BRANDON FLNitrate · 0.7 mi
- FLORIDA DEP DSCP SITE D493 ERIC_4715Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- CIRCLE K #2709780Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- FLOHL'S STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mango'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 Mango.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mango
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mango
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mango, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 56 sites within ~10 miles of Mango. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Mango
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 Mango average
Your land is one point inside Mango
Everything above resolves to Mango as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Mango Average
Mango Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Mango
- ●One soil character for all of Mango
- ●Frost dates read at Mango's scale: Jan 21 to Dec 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mango's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mango
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mango, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mango averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mango — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mango average
How we know this about Mango
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 at Mango’s own record; 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 Mango
When does frost risk typically end in Mango?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mango typically lands around Jan 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Feb 11.
When is the first frost in Mango?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mango typically arrives around Dec 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 10, so the watching starts about Nov 24 — about 337 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mango?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mango sees about 337 frost-free days — roughly Jan 21 through Dec 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 11 to Dec 10, about 302 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mango?
The federal record around Mango runs heavier than most — 2,779 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,398), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Mango?
From about Nov 24 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Dec 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Dec 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mango's scale — its 9b band and its 337-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mango'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 Mango’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Mango's own scale — its own ~337-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,988 acres it covers and 2,779 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mango's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mango's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Jan 21 and Dec 24 and the ~337-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,779 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mango, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mango's boundary and the 2,988 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~337-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mango's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mango's 2,988 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 Mango's 2,988 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mango you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,988 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Mango-wide figureread your own land →
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