Palmona Park, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Palmona Park, 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 Palmona Park 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 Palmona Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Palmona Park — the short answer
Palmona Park, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 527 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
- 527 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 Palmona Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Palmona Park'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 Palmona Park
Each reading below is measured for Palmona Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredPalmona Park 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 Palmona Park is in
Palmona Park sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Palmona Park's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lee County.
What Grows in Palmona Park
Every plant below cleared Palmona Park's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Palmona Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Palmona Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HERCULES INC-FPU-3-KERIUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- FRANKS D J AUTO SALESBrownfields · 2500 ft
- SOUTHERN TANK & PUMP COBrownfields · 2500 ft
- FL AUTOMATED #7Underground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- CUSTOM TIRE & AUTOBrownfields · 2600 ft
- K MART #3760Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- CIRCLE K #7249Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- CIRCLE K #7249Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WAL-MART SUPERCENTER #0623Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- MURPHY EXPRESS #8595Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- FLORIDA PAINTERS OF LEE COUNTY INCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- FORMER CIRCLE K #86003Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Palmona Park'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 Palmona Park.
Total Sites
1,477
within ~10 miles of Palmona Park
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Palmona Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Palmona Park
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 Palmona Park
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 Palmona Park average
Your land is one point inside Palmona Park
Everything above resolves to Palmona Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 527 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 Palmona Park Average
Palmona Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Palmona Park
- ●One soil character for all of Palmona Park
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Palmona Park's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Palmona Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Palmona Park, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Palmona Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Palmona Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Palmona Park average
How we know this about Palmona Park
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 Palmona Park
Is it too late to plant in Palmona Park?
No — Palmona Park 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 Palmona Park?
It doesn't — Palmona Park 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 Palmona Park?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Palmona Park 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 Palmona Park?
The federal record around Palmona Park is a meaningful one — 1,477 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (654), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Palmona Park's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Palmona Park'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 Palmona Park’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Palmona Park's own scale — the 527 acres it covers and 1,477 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Palmona Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Palmona Park — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 1,477 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Palmona Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Palmona Park's boundary and the 527 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Palmona Park's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Palmona Park's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Palmona Park's 527 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 Palmona Park's 527 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Palmona Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 527 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Palmona Park-wide figureread your own land →