Nobleton, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Nobleton, 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 Nobleton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Nobleton — the short answer
Nobleton, Florida: USDA zone 9a, about 321 days between hard freezes, across 120 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 2
- Hernando County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 20
- Hernando County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~321
- Hernando County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 120 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 Hernando County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Nobleton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Nobleton's 321-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Nobleton
Each reading below is measured for Nobleton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsNobleton runs about 321 days between hard freezes (read from Hernando County, the closest normal to Nobleton) — 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
MeasuredNobleton sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Nobleton is in
Nobleton sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Nobleton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hernando County.
What Grows in Nobleton
Every plant below cleared Nobleton's own zone 9a and its 321-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Nobleton?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Nobleton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Nobleton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CIRCLE K STORE #7157Brownfields · 2000 ft
- CIRCLE K #7157Underground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- WITHLACOOCHEE TRANS NO4 296FT WELL NR CROOM, FLNitrate · 3.5 mi
- FL DEPT OF CORRECTIONS - SUMTER CIUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- SUMTER FURNITUREBrownfields · 3.8 mi
- PRIDE ENTERPRISESBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- SUMTER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- CAL-MAINE FOODS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- CAL-MAINE BUSHNELL DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTCAFO · 4.3 mi
- ISTACHATTA GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- CHILDERS PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- SMITHS SAWMILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Nobleton'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 Nobleton.
Total Sites
170
within ~10 miles of Nobleton
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Nobleton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Nobleton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Nobleton, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Nobleton — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (118 sites). 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.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Nobleton
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 Nobleton average
Your land is one point inside Nobleton
Everything above resolves to Nobleton as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 120 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Hernando 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 Nobleton Average
Nobleton Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Nobleton
- ●One soil character for all of Nobleton
- ●Frost dates read at Nobleton's scale: Feb 2 to Dec 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Nobleton's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Nobleton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Nobleton, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Nobleton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Nobleton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Nobleton average
How we know this about Nobleton
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 Hernando 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 Nobleton
When does frost risk typically end in Nobleton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Nobleton typically lands around Feb 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Nobleton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Nobleton typically arrives around Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 6, so the watching starts about Nov 20 — about 321 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Nobleton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Nobleton sees about 321 frost-free days — roughly Feb 2 through Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 23 to Dec 6, about 286 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Nobleton?
The federal record around Nobleton shows 170 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (118), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles 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 Nobleton?
From about Nov 20 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Nobleton's scale — its 9a band and its 321-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Nobleton'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 Nobleton’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Nobleton's own scale — the 120 acres it covers and 170 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Nobleton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 170 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Nobleton, the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Nobleton's boundary and the 120 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~321-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Nobleton's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Nobleton has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Hernando County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Nobleton's 120 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hernando County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hernando 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 Hernando County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Nobleton's 120 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Nobleton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 120 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Nobleton-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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