South Patrick Shores, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in South Patrick Shores, 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 South Patrick Shores 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 South Patrick Shores — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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South Patrick Shores — the short answer
South Patrick Shores, Florida: USDA zone 10a, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 968 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
- 968 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 South Patrick Shores's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against South Patrick Shores'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 South Patrick Shores
Each reading below is measured for South Patrick Shores itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredSouth Patrick Shores 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 South Patrick Shores is in
South Patrick Shores sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at South Patrick Shores's own centroid rather than borrowed from Brevard County.
What Grows in South Patrick Shores
Every plant below cleared South Patrick Shores's own zone 10a. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near South Patrick Shores
Closest first, within ~10 miles of South Patrick Shores. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SEA PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBrownfields · 2400 ft
- CIRCLE K #2726093Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- CHARLIES AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- ACTION AUTO SUPPLY & AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- GLOVER OIL #109Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- DAS FAMILY II LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- SHELL-DALESUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- 7-ELEVEN FOOD STORE #26338-31Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- A1A AUTO REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- SEA PARK PLAZAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- TEXACO-BEACHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- USAF DRMOBrownfields · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from South Patrick Shores'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 South Patrick Shores.
Total Sites
706
within ~10 miles of South Patrick Shores
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of South Patrick Shores
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of South Patrick Shores
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.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in South Patrick Shores
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 South Patrick Shores average
Your land is one point inside South Patrick Shores
Everything above resolves to South Patrick Shores as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 968 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 South Patrick Shores Average
South Patrick Shores Average
- ●USDA Zones 10a, averaged across South Patrick Shores
- ●One soil character for all of South Patrick Shores
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not South Patrick Shores's 10a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in South Patrick Shores
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in South Patrick Shores, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that South Patrick Shores averages can't show:
We read public map data around South Patrick Shores — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the South Patrick Shores average
How we know this about South Patrick Shores
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 South Patrick Shores
Is it too late to plant in South Patrick Shores?
No — South Patrick Shores 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 South Patrick Shores?
It doesn't — South Patrick Shores 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 South Patrick Shores?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for South Patrick Shores 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 South Patrick Shores?
The federal record around South Patrick Shores is a meaningful one — 706 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (352), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 South Patrick Shores's scale — its 10a band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of South Patrick Shores'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 South Patrick Shores’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at South Patrick Shores's own scale — the 968 acres it covers and 706 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- South Patrick Shores's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10aUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering South Patrick Shores — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 706 documented contamination sites on the federal record near South Patrick Shores, the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- South Patrick Shores's boundary and the 968 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear South Patrick Shores's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at South Patrick Shores's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so South Patrick Shores's 968 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 South Patrick Shores's 968 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of South Patrick Shores you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 968 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 South Patrick Shores-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across FloridaSouth Patrick Shores sits outside our named growing regions, so Florida as a whole is its closest context here.
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