Oakleaf Plantation, 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.
On paper, artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Oakleaf Plantation, 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 Oakleaf Plantation 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 Oakleaf Plantation — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Oakleaf Plantation — the short answer
Oakleaf Plantation, Florida: USDA zone 9a, about 300 days between hard freezes, across 11K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 9
- Clay County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 6
- Clay County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~300
- Clay County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 11K 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 Clay County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Oakleaf Plantation's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Oakleaf Plantation's 300-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Oakleaf Plantation
Each reading below is measured for Oakleaf Plantation itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsOakleaf Plantation runs about 300 days between hard freezes (read from Clay County, the closest normal to Oakleaf Plantation) — 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
MeasuredOakleaf Plantation 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 Oakleaf Plantation is in
Oakleaf Plantation sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Oakleaf Plantation's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clay County.
What Grows in Oakleaf Plantation
Every plant below cleared Oakleaf Plantation's own zone 9a and its 300-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Oakleaf Plantation?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 6 — 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 Oakleaf Plantation
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Oakleaf Plantation. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKET #1169Brownfields · 1.0 mi
- TIRE KINGDOM #6146Brownfields · 1.6 mi
- SPEEDWAY #6910Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- KWIK WAY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKET #128Brownfields · 1.6 mi
- HOME DEPOT #6890Brownfields · 1.7 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #17309Brownfields · 1.8 mi
- TARGET STORE T2233Brownfields · 1.8 mi
- WAWA FOOD MARKET# 5266Underground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- WAWA FLORIDA LLC #5266Brownfields · 1.8 mi
- TEXAS IMO #9704776Brownfields · 2.2 mi
- CHIMNEY LAKES ANIMAL HOSPITALBrownfields · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Oakleaf Plantation'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 Oakleaf Plantation.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Oakleaf Plantation
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Oakleaf Plantation
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Oakleaf Plantation
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 Oakleaf Plantation average
Your land is one point inside Oakleaf Plantation
Everything above resolves to Oakleaf Plantation as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 11K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Clay 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 Oakleaf Plantation Average
Oakleaf Plantation Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Oakleaf Plantation
- ●One soil character for all of Oakleaf Plantation
- ●Frost dates read at Oakleaf Plantation's scale: Feb 9 to Dec 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Oakleaf Plantation's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Oakleaf Plantation
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Oakleaf Plantation, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Oakleaf Plantation averages can't show:
We read public map data around Oakleaf Plantation — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Oakleaf Plantation average
How we know this about Oakleaf Plantation
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 Clay 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 Oakleaf Plantation
When does frost risk typically end in Oakleaf Plantation?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Oakleaf Plantation typically lands around Feb 9, 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 Mar 2.
When is the first frost in Oakleaf Plantation?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Oakleaf Plantation typically arrives around Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 22, so the watching starts about Nov 6 — about 300 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Oakleaf Plantation?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Oakleaf Plantation sees about 300 frost-free days — roughly Feb 9 through Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 2 to Nov 22, about 265 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Oakleaf Plantation?
The federal record around Oakleaf Plantation runs heavier than most — 737 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (376), the nearest Brownfields record about 1.0 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Oakleaf Plantation?
From about Nov 6 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Oakleaf Plantation's scale — its 9a band and its 300-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Oakleaf Plantation'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 Oakleaf Plantation’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Oakleaf Plantation's own scale — the 10,511 acres it covers and 737 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Oakleaf Plantation's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 737 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Oakleaf Plantation, the closest Brownfields record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Oakleaf Plantation's boundary and the 10,511 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~300-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Oakleaf Plantation's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Oakleaf Plantation has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Clay County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Oakleaf Plantation's 10,511 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clay County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clay 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 Clay County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Oakleaf Plantation's 10,511 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Oakleaf Plantation you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 10,511 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 1.0 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 Oakleaf Plantation-wide figureread your own land →