Marineland, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Marineland, 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 Marineland 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 Marineland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Marineland — the short answer
Marineland, Florida: USDA zone 9b, about 327 days between hard freezes, across 250 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 25
- Flagler County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 18
- Flagler County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~327
- Flagler County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 250 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Flagler County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Marineland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Marineland's 327-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Marineland
Each reading below is measured for Marineland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsMarineland runs about 327 days between hard freezes (read from Flagler County, the closest normal to Marineland) — 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
MeasuredMarineland 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 Marineland is in
Marineland sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Marineland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Flagler County.
What Grows in Marineland
Every plant below cleared Marineland's own zone 9b and its 327-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Marineland?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Marineland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Marineland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MARINELAND INC-FISH HOUSEUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- MARINELAND DOLPHIN ADVENTUREBrownfields · 550 ft
- MARINE PARK OF FLAGLERUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- GEORGIA AQUARIUM'S CONSERVATION FIELD STATIONBrownfields · 1400 ft
- UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA - CENTER FOR MARINE STUDIESBrownfields · 1400 ft
- CITGO-MARINE CAMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- CIRCLE K #2721176Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- STATE PARK-WASHINGTON OAKS GARDENUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- GUIDAS RESTAURANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- BING'S FISHING RESORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- FL CITRUS CTR #10Underground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- D & H GROVES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Marineland'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 Marineland.
Total Sites
113
within ~10 miles of Marineland
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
8 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Marineland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Marineland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Marineland, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 8 sites within ~10 miles of Marineland. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Marineland
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 Marineland average
Your land is one point inside Marineland
Everything above resolves to Marineland as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 250 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Flagler County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Marineland Average
Marineland Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Marineland
- ●One soil character for all of Marineland
- ●Frost dates read at Marineland's scale: Jan 25 to Dec 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Marineland's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Marineland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Marineland, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Marineland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Marineland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Marineland average
How we know this about Marineland
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 Flagler County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Marineland
When does frost risk typically end in Marineland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Marineland typically lands around Jan 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Marineland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Marineland typically arrives around Dec 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 4, so the watching starts about Nov 18 — about 327 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Marineland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Marineland sees about 327 frost-free days — roughly Jan 25 through Dec 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 15 to Dec 4, about 292 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Marineland?
The federal record around Marineland shows 113 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (59), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Marineland?
From about Nov 18 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Marineland's scale — its 9b band and its 327-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Marineland'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 Marineland’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Marineland's own scale — the 250 acres it covers and 113 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Marineland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 113 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Marineland, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Marineland's boundary and the 250 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~327-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Marineland's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Marineland has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Flagler County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Marineland's 250 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Flagler County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Flagler 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 Flagler County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Marineland's 250 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Marineland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 250 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Marineland-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across FloridaMarineland sits outside our named growing regions, so Florida as a whole is its closest context here.
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