Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores, 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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores — the short answer
Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 128 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
- 128 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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores'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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
Each reading below is measured for Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMatlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores 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
What Grows in Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
Every plant below cleared Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- L - 311Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- LAST CHANCE SALOONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- TEXACO-RUSSWORTHYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- DOBBY'S PLACE, INC.Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- DOBBYS PLACEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- A-1 MARINE SERVICES INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- CASTRO AUTO REPAIRSBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- SAN CARLOS MARINA AT MATLACHAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- TWIN CITY PLAZAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKET #1007Brownfields · 1.4 mi
- 7-ELEVEN STORE #38105Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- L -1473Nitrate · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores'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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores.
Total Sites
387
within ~10 miles of Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
12 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 191 sites within ~10 miles of Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores average
Your land is one point inside Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
Everything above resolves to Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 128 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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores Average
Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
- ●One soil character for all of Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores averages can't show:
We read public map data around Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores average
How we know this about Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores
Is it too late to plant in Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores?
No — Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores 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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores?
It doesn't — Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores 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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores 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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores?
The federal record around Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores is a meaningful one — 387 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (191), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.6 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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores'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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores's own scale — the 128 acres it covers and 387 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 387 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores, the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores's boundary and the 128 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores's 128 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lee 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 Lee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores's 128 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 128 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 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 Matlacha Isles-Matlacha Shores-wide figureread your own land →