Pine Ridge, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pine Ridge, 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 Ridge 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 Ridge — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Pine Ridge — the short answer
Pine Ridge, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 1K 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
- 1K 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 Ridge's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pine Ridge'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 Ridge
Each reading below is measured for Pine Ridge itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredPine Ridge 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 Ridge is in
Pine Ridge sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pine Ridge'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 Pine Ridge
Every plant below cleared Pine Ridge's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Pine Ridge
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pine Ridge. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 53 Cajeput DrNitrate · 1700 ft
- 123 Center StNitrate · 0.6 mi
- PBI3Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- 189 CARIBBEAN RDNitrate · 0.7 mi
- WEST COAST ELEVATOR CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 641 Hickory Rd.Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- PATRICIOS TRUCKING INCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- PBI2Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- INTERIORS CULTURED MARBLE INCToxics Release Inventory · 0.8 mi
- C-00490Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- BARLEY PAINTSBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- C-01061Nitrate · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pine Ridge'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 Ridge.
Total Sites
1,067
within ~10 miles of Pine Ridge
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pine Ridge
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pine Ridge
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 Pine Ridge
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 Pine Ridge average
Your land is one point inside Pine Ridge
Everything above resolves to Pine Ridge as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Ridge Average
Pine Ridge Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across Pine Ridge
- ●One soil character for all of Pine Ridge
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pine Ridge's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pine Ridge
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pine Ridge, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pine Ridge averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pine Ridge — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pine Ridge average
How we know this about Pine Ridge
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 Ridge
Is it too late to plant in Pine Ridge?
No — Pine Ridge 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 Ridge?
It doesn't — Pine Ridge 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 Ridge?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Pine Ridge 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 Ridge?
The federal record around Pine Ridge is a meaningful one — 1,067 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (428), the nearest Nitrate 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 Pine Ridge's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Pine Ridge'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 Ridge’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Pine Ridge's own scale — the 1,078 acres it covers and 1,067 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pine Ridge's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Pine Ridge — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 1,067 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pine Ridge, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pine Ridge's boundary and the 1,078 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Pine Ridge's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Pine Ridge 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 Pine Ridge's 1,078 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 Pine Ridge's 1,078 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pine Ridge you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,078 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Pine Ridge-wide figureread your own land →