Naples, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Naples, 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 Naples 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 Naples — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Naples — the short answer
Naples, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 8K 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
- 8K 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 Naples's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Naples'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 Naples
Each reading below is measured for Naples itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredNaples 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 Naples is in
Naples sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Naples's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Collier County is mostly Southern Florida Coastal Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Naples
Every plant below cleared Naples's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Naples
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Naples. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SUPREME AUTO COLLISIONBrownfields · 500 ft
- CHEVRON #47725Underground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- NAPLES TIRE & SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMBrownfields · 950 ft
- EXXON #4651Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- RICK JOHNSON AUTO & TIREBrownfields · 1100 ft
- SINGLE SOURCE INCBrownfields · 1100 ft
- COVINGTON'S OF FLORIDABrownfields · 1100 ft
- 7-ELEVEN STORE #34803Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- MOBIL #02-A19Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- SHELL STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Naples'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 Naples.
Total Sites
974
within ~10 miles of Naples
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Naples
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Naples
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Naples
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 Naples average
Your land is one point inside Naples
Everything above resolves to Naples as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 8K 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 Naples Average
Naples Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Naples
- ●One soil character for all of Naples
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Naples's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Naples
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Naples, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Naples averages can't show:
We read public map data around Naples — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Naples average
How we know this about Naples
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 Naples
Is it too late to plant in Naples?
No — Naples 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 Naples?
It doesn't — Naples 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 Naples?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Naples 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 Naples?
The federal record around Naples is a meaningful one — 974 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (387), 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 Naples's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Naples'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 Naples’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Naples's own scale — the 7,874 acres it covers and 974 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Naples's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Naples — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 974 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Naples, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Naples's boundary and the 7,874 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Naples's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Naples sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Naples's 7,874 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 Naples's 7,874 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Naples you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 7,874 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 Naples-wide figureread your own land →