Marco Shores-Hammock Bay, 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.
On paper, artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Marco Shores-Hammock Bay, 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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Marco Shores-Hammock Bay — the short answer
Marco Shores-Hammock Bay, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 568 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 10b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Killing freeze
- None on record
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, this town’s own record
- Town area
- 568 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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Marco Shores-Hammock Bay'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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
Each reading below is measured for Marco Shores-Hammock Bay itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMarco Shores-Hammock Bay 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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay is in
Marco Shores-Hammock Bay sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Tropical Wet Forests. That is read at Marco Shores-Hammock Bay's own centroid rather than borrowed from Collier County.
What Grows in Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
Every plant below cleared Marco Shores-Hammock Bay's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Marco Shores-Hammock Bay. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MARCO SHORES GOLF & COUNTRY CLUBBrownfields · 1800 ft
- CAPRI FISHERIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- THE TARPON CLUB NORTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- THE TARPON CLUB MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- THE ROOKERY AT MARCO GOLF CLUBBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- SNOOK INNUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- PELICAN PIER MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- FACTORY BAY MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- GOLF CLUB AT FIDDLER'S CREEKBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- MARCO RIVER MARINA INC DBA ROSE MARINABrownfields · 3.0 mi
- ROSE MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- ROOKERY BAY NATIONAL RESEARCH RESERVEBrownfields · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Marco Shores-Hammock Bay'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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay.
Total Sites
237
within ~10 miles of Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Marco Shores-Hammock Bay, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 3 sites within ~10 miles of Marco Shores-Hammock Bay. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay average
Your land is one point inside Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
Everything above resolves to Marco Shores-Hammock Bay as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 568 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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay Average
Marco Shores-Hammock Bay Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
- ●One soil character for all of Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Marco Shores-Hammock Bay's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Marco Shores-Hammock Bay, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Marco Shores-Hammock Bay averages can't show:
We read public map data around Marco Shores-Hammock Bay — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Marco Shores-Hammock Bay average
How we know this about Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay
Is it too late to plant in Marco Shores-Hammock Bay?
No — Marco Shores-Hammock Bay 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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay?
It doesn't — Marco Shores-Hammock Bay 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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Marco Shores-Hammock Bay 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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay?
The federal record around Marco Shores-Hammock Bay is a meaningful one — 237 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (106), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles 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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Marco Shores-Hammock Bay'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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Marco Shores-Hammock Bay's own scale — the 568 acres it covers and 237 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Marco Shores-Hammock Bay's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Marco Shores-Hammock Bay — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 237 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Marco Shores-Hammock Bay, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Marco Shores-Hammock Bay's boundary and the 568 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Marco Shores-Hammock Bay's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Marco Shores-Hammock Bay'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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay's 568 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Collier County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Collier 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 Collier County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Marco Shores-Hammock Bay's 568 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Marco Shores-Hammock Bay you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 568 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 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 Marco Shores-Hammock Bay-wide figureread your own land →