Progress Village, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
On paper, artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Progress Village, 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 Progress Village 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 Progress Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Progress Village — the short answer
Progress Village, Florida: USDA zone 10a, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 10a
- 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 10a is Progress Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Progress Village'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 Progress Village
Each reading below is measured for Progress Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredProgress Village sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a.
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 Progress Village is in
Progress Village sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Progress Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hillsborough County.
What Grows in Progress Village
Every plant below cleared Progress Village's own zone 10a. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Progress Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Progress Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- RELIABLE TRANSMISSION SERVICEBrownfields · 1600 ft
- CARDINAL HEALTH-SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIESBrownfields · 1700 ft
- STANLEY BLACK & DECKERToxics Release Inventory · 1700 ft
- TAMPA ARMATURE WORKS INCBrownfields · 1900 ft
- GAGEL'S AUTO PARTS INCBrownfields · 1900 ft
- FLORIDA ROCK INDUSTRIES INC -RIVERVIEW PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 1900 ft
- PREFERRED MATERIALS, INC-RIVERVIEW CBPToxics Release Inventory · 1900 ft
- CEMEX LLC - 78TH STREET CBPToxics Release Inventory · 1900 ft
- VALLENBrownfields · 1900 ft
- SHELL-MADISON #646Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- MOBIL-PROGRESS #536Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- CITGO-SPEEDY SELECTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Progress Village'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 Progress Village.
Total Sites
2,654
within ~10 miles of Progress Village
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
48 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Progress Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Progress Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Progress Village, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 48 sites within ~10 miles of Progress Village. 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 Progress Village
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 Progress Village average
Your land is one point inside Progress Village
Everything above resolves to Progress Village 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 Progress Village Average
Progress Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 10a, averaged across Progress Village
- ●One soil character for all of Progress Village
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Progress Village's 10a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Progress Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Progress Village, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Progress Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Progress Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Progress Village average
How we know this about Progress Village
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 Progress Village
Is it too late to plant in Progress Village?
No — Progress Village 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 Progress Village?
It doesn't — Progress Village 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 Progress Village?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for Progress Village 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 Progress Village?
The federal record around Progress Village runs heavier than most — 2,654 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,443), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
Everything above is measured at Progress Village's scale — its 10a band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of Progress Village'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 Progress Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Progress Village's own scale — the 1,937 acres it covers and 2,654 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Progress Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10aUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering Progress Village — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 2,654 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Progress Village, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Progress Village's boundary and the 1,937 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Progress Village's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Progress Village's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Progress Village's 1,937 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hillsborough County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hillsborough 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 Hillsborough County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Progress Village's 1,937 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Progress Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,937 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Progress Village-wide figureread your own land →
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