The Crossings, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
A short list that earns its place here — artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in The Crossings, 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 The Crossings 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 The Crossings — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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The Crossings — the short answer
The Crossings, Florida: USDA zone 10b, no 28°F killing freeze on record — the season is year-round, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 10b
- 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 10b is The Crossings's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against The Crossings'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 The Crossings
Each reading below is measured for The Crossings itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredThe Crossings sits in USDA hardiness zone 10b.
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 The Crossings is in
The Crossings sits in the Southern Florida Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Tropical Wet Forests. That is read at The Crossings's own centroid rather than borrowed from Miami-Dade County.
What Grows in The Crossings
Every plant below cleared The Crossings's own zone 10b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near The Crossings
Closest first, within ~10 miles of The Crossings. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ARVIDA MIDDLE SCHOOLBrownfields · 1400 ft
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKET #1803Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- CVS PHARMACY #3401Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- CROSSINGS MOBILUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- DEVON AIRE K-8 CENTERBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- CIRCLE K #8611Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- DEVONAIRE CLEANER & SHIRT SALONBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- SUNSHINE 30079Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- SUNSHINE #367Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- MIAMI DADE WATER & SEWER PUMP STA #668Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- KENDALL COMMERCIAL CENTERBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- DADE COUNTY CALUSA ELEMENTARYBrownfields · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from The Crossings'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 The Crossings.
Total Sites
1,924
within ~10 miles of The Crossings
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
7 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of The Crossings
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of The Crossings
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 The Crossings
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 Crossings average
Your land is one point inside The Crossings
Everything above resolves to The Crossings 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 The Crossings Average
The Crossings Average
- ●USDA Zones 10b, averaged across The Crossings
- ●One soil character for all of The Crossings
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not The Crossings's 10b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in The Crossings
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in The Crossings, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Crossings averages can't show:
We read public map data around The Crossings — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Crossings average
How we know this about The Crossings
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 The Crossings
Is it too late to plant in The Crossings?
No — The Crossings 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 The Crossings?
It doesn't — The Crossings 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 The Crossings?
Year-round — the 1991–2020 station record for The Crossings 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 The Crossings?
The federal record around The Crossings is a meaningful one — 1,924 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (858), the nearest Brownfields 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.
Everything above is measured at The Crossings's scale — its 10b band and its no killing freeze on record. Your yard writes its own version of The Crossings'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 The Crossings’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at The Crossings's own scale — the 2,200 acres it covers and 1,924 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- The Crossings's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10bUSDA PHZM 2023
- No 28°F killing freeze in the 30-year station record covering The Crossings — a year-round growing seasonNOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS, 1991-2020
- 1,924 documented contamination sites on the federal record near The Crossings, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- The Crossings's boundary and the 2,200 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear The Crossings's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at The Crossings's own centroid, the Southern Florida Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so The Crossings's 2,200 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Miami-Dade County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among The Crossings's 2,200 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of The Crossings you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,200 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 The Crossings-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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