Pelican Bay, 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 Pelican Bay, 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 Pelican Bay 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 Pelican Bay — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Pelican Bay — the short answer
Pelican Bay, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 2K 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
- 2K 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 Pelican Bay's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pelican Bay'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 Pelican Bay
Each reading below is measured for Pelican Bay itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredPelican Bay 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 Pelican Bay is in
Pelican Bay sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pelican Bay'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 Pelican Bay
Every plant below cleared Pelican Bay's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Pelican Bay
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pelican Bay. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PBI4Nitrate · 1100 ft
- DORCHESTER CONDOMINIUMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- PBI3Nitrate · 2600 ft
- HYDE PARK CONDOMINIUMUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PBI6Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- CLUB AT PELICAN BAY-MAINT FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 53 Cajeput DrNitrate · 0.8 mi
- C-01003Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- PBI7Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- PBI2Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- GROSVENOR CONDOMINIUMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- BAY COLONY COMMUNITY ASSOCBrownfields · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pelican Bay'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 Pelican Bay.
Total Sites
1,028
within ~10 miles of Pelican Bay
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pelican Bay
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pelican Bay
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 Pelican Bay
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 Pelican Bay average
Your land is one point inside Pelican Bay
Everything above resolves to Pelican Bay as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Pelican Bay Average
Pelican Bay Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Pelican Bay
- ●One soil character for all of Pelican Bay
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pelican Bay's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pelican Bay
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pelican Bay, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pelican Bay averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pelican Bay — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pelican Bay average
How we know this about Pelican Bay
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 Pelican Bay
Is it too late to plant in Pelican Bay?
No — Pelican Bay 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 Pelican Bay?
It doesn't — Pelican Bay 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 Pelican Bay?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Pelican Bay 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 Pelican Bay?
The federal record around Pelican Bay is a meaningful one — 1,028 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (427), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 Pelican Bay's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Pelican Bay'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 Pelican Bay’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Pelican Bay's own scale — the 1,886 acres it covers and 1,028 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pelican Bay's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Pelican Bay — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 1,028 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pelican Bay, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pelican Bay's boundary and the 1,886 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Pelican Bay's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Pelican Bay 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 Pelican Bay's 1,886 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 Pelican Bay's 1,886 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pelican Bay you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,886 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 Pelican Bay-wide figureread your own land →