Scottsmoor, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Growers here do well with okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Scottsmoor, 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 Scottsmoor 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 Scottsmoor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Scottsmoor — the short answer
Scottsmoor, Florida: USDA zone 10a, about 333 days between hard freezes, across 742 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 10a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~333
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 742 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 10a is Scottsmoor's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Scottsmoor's 333-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Scottsmoor
Each reading below is measured for Scottsmoor itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredScottsmoor runs about 333 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredScottsmoor 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 Scottsmoor is in
Scottsmoor sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Scottsmoor's own centroid rather than borrowed from Brevard County.
What Grows in Scottsmoor
Every plant below cleared Scottsmoor's own zone 10a and its 333-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Scottsmoor?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Scottsmoor
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Scottsmoor. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CIRCLE K #2722111Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- FISHERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- FLORIDA DEP SIS HOLLAND RD TCEBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- CHEMKO TECHNICAL SERVICES INCBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- NORTH BREVARD AUTO SALVAGEBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- SUNSHINE FOOD MART #31Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- SUNSHINE FOOD MART #49Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO SCOTTSMOOR SUBSTATIONBrownfields · 2.0 mi
- PARRISH INC JESSE JUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- CIRCLE K #2722005Underground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- SAUER INCORPORATEDBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- VC/SOUTHEAST VOLUSIA INTERCONNECTED-WS#7PFAS · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Scottsmoor'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 Scottsmoor.
Total Sites
87
within ~10 miles of Scottsmoor
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Scottsmoor
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Scottsmoor
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Scottsmoor, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 3 sites within ~10 miles of Scottsmoor. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Scottsmoor
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 Scottsmoor average
Your land is one point inside Scottsmoor
Everything above resolves to Scottsmoor as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 742 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 Scottsmoor Average
Scottsmoor Average
- ●USDA Zones 10a, averaged across Scottsmoor
- ●One soil character for all of Scottsmoor
- ●Frost dates read at Scottsmoor's scale: Jan 19 to Dec 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Scottsmoor's 10a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Scottsmoor
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Scottsmoor, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Scottsmoor averages can't show:
We read public map data around Scottsmoor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Scottsmoor average
How we know this about Scottsmoor
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 at Scottsmoor’s own record; 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 Scottsmoor
When does frost risk typically end in Scottsmoor?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Scottsmoor typically lands around Jan 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Feb 9.
When is the first frost in Scottsmoor?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Scottsmoor typically arrives around Dec 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 4, so the watching starts about Nov 18 — about 333 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Scottsmoor?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Scottsmoor sees about 333 frost-free days — roughly Jan 19 through Dec 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 9 to Dec 4, about 298 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Scottsmoor?
The federal record around Scottsmoor shows 87 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (49), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Scottsmoor?
From about Nov 18 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Dec 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Dec 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Scottsmoor's scale — its 10a band and its 333-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Scottsmoor'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 Scottsmoor’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Scottsmoor's own scale — its own ~333-day season between 28°F freezes, the 742 acres it covers and 87 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Scottsmoor's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Scottsmoor's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Jan 19 and Dec 18 and the ~333-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 87 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Scottsmoor, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Scottsmoor's boundary and the 742 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 10a and a ~333-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Scottsmoor's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Scottsmoor's 742 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Brevard County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Brevard 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 Brevard County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Scottsmoor's 742 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Scottsmoor you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 742 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Scottsmoor-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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