St. Lucie Village, 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 St. Lucie 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 St. Lucie Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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St. Lucie Village — the short answer
St. Lucie Village, Florida: USDA zone 10a, about 329 days between hard freezes, across 575 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 10a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 19
- St. Lucie County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 14
- St. Lucie County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~329
- St. Lucie County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 575 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are St. Lucie County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 10a is St. Lucie Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against St. Lucie Village's 329-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in St. Lucie Village
Each reading below is measured for St. Lucie Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsSt. Lucie Village runs about 329 days between hard freezes (read from St. Lucie County, the closest normal to St. Lucie Village) — 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
MeasuredSt. Lucie 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 St. Lucie Village is in
St. Lucie Village sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at St. Lucie Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from St. Lucie County.
What Grows in St. Lucie Village
Every plant below cleared St. Lucie Village's own zone 10a and its 329-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in St. Lucie Village?
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 14 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near St. Lucie Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of St. Lucie Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OMEC RECYCLINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- A & A AUTO SALVAGE INCBrownfields · 1400 ft
- GRIMES HEATING & AIR CONDITIONINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- AUTO CARE CENTERBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- COMMERCIAL MATERIAL EQUIPMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- ST LUCIE CNTY AIRPORT-SE AREA #5Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- AEREX INDUSTRIES INCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- TNT CUSTOM BOAT WORKSBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- ST LUCIE CNTY AIRPORT-PENSKE AREA #4Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- PHOENIX METAL PRODUCTS INCBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- BLUEWATER SPORTFISHIM BOATS INCBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- BLUEWATER SPORTFISHIM BOATS INCToxics Release Inventory · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from St. Lucie 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 St. Lucie Village.
Total Sites
775
within ~10 miles of St. Lucie Village
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of St. Lucie Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of St. Lucie Village
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.
Check your specific parcel in St. Lucie Village
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Your land is one point inside St. Lucie Village
Everything above resolves to St. Lucie Village as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 575 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from St. Lucie County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 St. Lucie Village Average
St. Lucie Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 10a, averaged across St. Lucie Village
- ●One soil character for all of St. Lucie Village
- ●Frost dates read at St. Lucie Village's scale: Jan 19 to Dec 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not St. Lucie Village's 10a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in St. Lucie Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in St. Lucie Village, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that St. Lucie Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around St. Lucie Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the St. Lucie Village average
How we know this about St. Lucie 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 at St. Lucie County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 St. Lucie Village
When does frost risk typically end in St. Lucie Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in St. Lucie Village 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 St. Lucie Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in St. Lucie Village typically arrives around Dec 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 30, so the watching starts about Nov 14 — about 329 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in St. Lucie Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, St. Lucie Village sees about 329 frost-free days — roughly Jan 19 through Dec 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 9 to Nov 30, about 294 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in St. Lucie Village?
The federal record around St. Lucie Village is a meaningful one — 775 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (439), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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.
How do I protect my plants from frost in St. Lucie Village?
From about Nov 14 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at St. Lucie Village's scale — its 10a band and its 329-day season. Your yard writes its own version of St. Lucie 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 St. Lucie Village’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at St. Lucie Village's own scale — the 575 acres it covers and 775 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- St. Lucie Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 775 documented contamination sites on the federal record near St. Lucie Village, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- St. Lucie Village's boundary and the 575 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 10a and a ~329-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at St. Lucie Village's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — St. Lucie Village has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom St. Lucie County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so St. Lucie Village's 575 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom St. Lucie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom St. Lucie 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 St. Lucie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among St. Lucie Village's 575 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of St. Lucie 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 575 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 St. Lucie Village-wide figureread your own land →