Pahokee, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Pahokee, 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 Pahokee 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 Pahokee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Pahokee — the short answer
Pahokee, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 3K 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
- 3K 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 Pahokee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pahokee'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 Pahokee
Each reading below is measured for Pahokee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredPahokee 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 Pahokee is in
Pahokee sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Tropical Wet Forests. That is read at Pahokee's own centroid rather than borrowed from Palm Beach County.
What Grows in Pahokee
Every plant below cleared Pahokee's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Pahokee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pahokee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- COWARTS LAUNDRY & DRY CLEANERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY-ROWUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- MIM'S TRUCKING EQUIPMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY - OSCEMIL SUBSTATIONBrownfields · 850 ft
- ADVANCE TECH AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BROWNS USED EARSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- PAHOKEE FORDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- LAKE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- NANAS PETROLEUMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- HATTON STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- RASHLEY'S DRY CLEANERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- CONCEPT DEVELOPMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pahokee'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 Pahokee.
Total Sites
230
within ~10 miles of Pahokee
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pahokee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pahokee
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pahokee, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of Pahokee. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Pahokee
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 Pahokee average
Your land is one point inside Pahokee
Everything above resolves to Pahokee as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Pahokee Average
Pahokee Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Pahokee
- ●One soil character for all of Pahokee
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pahokee's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pahokee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pahokee, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pahokee averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pahokee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pahokee average
How we know this about Pahokee
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 Pahokee
Is it too late to plant in Pahokee?
No — Pahokee 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 Pahokee?
It doesn't — Pahokee 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 Pahokee?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Pahokee 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 Pahokee?
The federal record around Pahokee is a meaningful one — 230 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (124), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Pahokee's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Pahokee'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 Pahokee’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Pahokee's own scale — the 3,402 acres it covers and 230 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pahokee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Pahokee — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 230 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pahokee, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pahokee's boundary and the 3,402 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Pahokee's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pahokee's own centroid, the Southern Florida Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pahokee's 3,402 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Palm Beach County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pahokee's 3,402 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pahokee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,402 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 Pahokee-wide figureread your own land →