Pine Island Center, 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 Pine Island Center, 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 Pine Island Center 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 Pine Island Center — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Pine Island Center — the short answer
Pine Island Center, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 3K 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
- 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 Pine Island Center's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pine Island Center'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 Pine Island Center
Each reading below is measured for Pine Island Center itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredPine Island Center 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 Pine Island Center is in
Pine Island Center sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pine Island Center's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lee County.
What Grows in Pine Island Center
Every plant below cleared Pine Island Center's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Pine Island Center
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pine Island Center. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CIRCLE K #7336Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- L - 321Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- MATLACHA-PINE ISLAND CONTROL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- PINE ISLAND PHARMACYBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- CIRCLE K #4321Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- ST JAMES AUTOMOTIVE, INCBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- SUNSET DREAMS INCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKET #1764Brownfields · 1.3 mi
- EDISON OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- MAINBRACE TECHNOLOGIES INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.3 mi
- JRL VENTURES DBA MARINE CONCEPTSToxics Release Inventory · 1.3 mi
- GREATER PINE ISLAND WATER ASSOC INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pine Island Center'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 Pine Island Center.
Total Sites
155
within ~10 miles of Pine Island Center
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pine Island Center
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pine Island Center
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.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
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Your land is one point inside Pine Island Center
Everything above resolves to Pine Island Center 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 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 Pine Island Center Average
Pine Island Center Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Pine Island Center
- ●One soil character for all of Pine Island Center
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pine Island Center's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pine Island Center
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pine Island Center, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pine Island Center averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pine Island Center — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pine Island Center average
How we know this about Pine Island Center
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 Pine Island Center
Is it too late to plant in Pine Island Center?
No — Pine Island Center 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 Pine Island Center?
It doesn't — Pine Island Center 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 Pine Island Center?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Pine Island Center 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 Pine Island Center?
The federal record around Pine Island Center shows 155 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (70), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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.
Everything above is measured at Pine Island Center's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Pine Island Center'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 Pine Island Center’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Pine Island Center's own scale — the 2,797 acres it covers and 155 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pine Island Center's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Pine Island Center — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 155 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pine Island Center, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pine Island Center's boundary and the 2,797 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Pine Island Center's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pine Island Center's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pine Island Center's 2,797 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 Pine Island Center's 2,797 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pine Island Center you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,797 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Pine Island Center-wide figureread your own land →