Taylor Creek, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Taylor Creek, 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 Taylor Creek lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Taylor Creek — the short answer
Taylor Creek, Florida: USDA zone 10a, about 336 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 10a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 18
- Okeechobee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 20
- Okeechobee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~336
- Okeechobee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Okeechobee County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 10a is Taylor Creek's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Taylor Creek's 336-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Taylor Creek
Each reading below is measured for Taylor Creek itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsTaylor Creek runs about 336 days between hard freezes (read from Okeechobee County, the closest normal to Taylor Creek) — 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
MeasuredTaylor Creek 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 Taylor Creek is in
Taylor Creek sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Taylor Creek's own centroid rather than borrowed from Okeechobee County.
What Grows in Taylor Creek
Every plant below cleared Taylor Creek's own zone 10a and its 336-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Taylor Creek?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 20 — 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 Taylor Creek
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Taylor Creek. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SHELL-TREASURE ISLANDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- A J PETROLEUM LLC #1123Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- NEW EXPRESS FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- TAYLOR CREEK RESORT RV PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SOUTH FL WATER MGMT DIST-S 193Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- OKEECHOBEE CNTY SCHOOL BD-EVERGLADE ESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- BIG LAKE MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- MONITOR WELL AT SR710@NUBBIN SL, NR OKEECHOBEE, FLNitrate · 1.8 mi
- TOWN STAR #40Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- SB & RS INVESTMENT LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- CURRY'S FLEA MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- FL POWER & LIGHT CO-OKEECHOBE SRVC CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Taylor Creek'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 Taylor Creek.
Total Sites
211
within ~10 miles of Taylor Creek
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Taylor Creek
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Taylor Creek
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Taylor Creek, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Taylor Creek — CAFO (4 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (131 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Taylor Creek
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 Taylor Creek average
Your land is one point inside Taylor Creek
Everything above resolves to Taylor Creek as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Okeechobee 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 Taylor Creek Average
Taylor Creek Average
- ●USDA Zones 10a, averaged across Taylor Creek
- ●One soil character for all of Taylor Creek
- ●Frost dates read at Taylor Creek's scale: Jan 18 to Dec 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Taylor Creek's 10a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Taylor Creek
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Taylor Creek, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Taylor Creek averages can't show:
We read public map data around Taylor Creek — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Taylor Creek average
How we know this about Taylor Creek
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 Okeechobee 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 Taylor Creek
When does frost risk typically end in Taylor Creek?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Taylor Creek typically lands around Jan 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Taylor Creek?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Taylor Creek typically arrives around Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 6, so the watching starts about Nov 20 — about 336 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Taylor Creek?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Taylor Creek sees about 336 frost-free days — roughly Jan 18 through Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 8 to Dec 6, about 301 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Taylor Creek?
The federal record around Taylor Creek is a meaningful one — 211 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (131), 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 Taylor Creek?
From about Nov 20 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Taylor Creek's scale — its 10a band and its 336-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Taylor Creek'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 Taylor Creek’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Taylor Creek's own scale — the 1,951 acres it covers and 211 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Taylor Creek's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 211 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Taylor Creek, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Taylor Creek's boundary and the 1,951 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 10a and a ~336-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Taylor Creek's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Taylor Creek has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Okeechobee County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Taylor Creek's 1,951 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Okeechobee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Okeechobee 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 Okeechobee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Taylor Creek's 1,951 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Taylor Creek you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,951 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 Taylor Creek-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across FloridaTaylor Creek sits outside our named growing regions, so Florida as a whole is its closest context here.
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