Tiger Point, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with tomato, sweet potato, jalapeno, and loquat — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Tiger Point, 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 Tiger Point lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Tiger Point — the short answer
Tiger Point, Florida: USDA zone 9b, about 299 days between hard freezes, across 899 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 10
- Santa Rosa County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 6
- Santa Rosa County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~299
- Santa Rosa County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 899 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 Santa Rosa County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Tiger Point's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tiger Point's 299-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tiger Point
Each reading below is measured for Tiger Point itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsTiger Point runs about 299 days between hard freezes (read from Santa Rosa County, the closest normal to Tiger Point) — 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
MeasuredTiger Point sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
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 Tiger Point is in
Tiger Point sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Tiger Point's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Santa Rosa County is mostly Southeastern Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Tiger Point
Plants matched to Tiger Point's USDA zones 9b, ordered by how much hardiness margin each has here — the ones with room to spare at both ends of this town's band lead. Each links to its full growing profile.
Is it too late to plant in Tiger Point?
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 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 6 — 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.
Documented around Tiger Point
Spotted lanternfly documented 23 miles from Tiger Point, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Tiger Point
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tiger Point. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LOWES OF GULF BREEZE FL #1073Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKET #1537Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- ANIMAL HOSPITAL OF THE TIGER POINT INCBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- TIGER POINT CONVENIENCE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- WALMART SUPERCENTER #2533Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- CROWN CABINETRYBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- KWIK SHOP EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- WALGREENS #6210Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- SHERWIN WILLIAMSBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- MURPHY USA #6741Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- TUFFY TIRE & AUTO SERVICEBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- SKYE IMPORT AUTO BODY LLCBrownfields · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tiger Point'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 Tiger Point.
Total Sites
194
within ~10 miles of Tiger Point
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tiger Point
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tiger Point
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 Tiger Point
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Your land is one point inside Tiger Point
Everything above resolves to Tiger Point as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 899 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Santa Rosa 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 Tiger Point Average
Tiger Point Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Tiger Point
- ●One soil character for all of Tiger Point
- ●Frost dates read at Tiger Point's scale: Feb 10 to Dec 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tiger Point's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tiger Point
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We read public map data around Tiger Point — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tiger Point average
How we know this about Tiger Point
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 Santa Rosa 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 Tiger Point
When does frost risk typically end in Tiger Point?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tiger Point typically lands around Feb 10, 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 Mar 3.
When is the first frost in Tiger Point?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tiger Point typically arrives around Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 22, so the watching starts about Nov 6 — about 299 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tiger Point?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tiger Point sees about 299 frost-free days — roughly Feb 10 through Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 3 to Nov 22, about 264 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tiger Point?
The federal record around Tiger Point is a meaningful one — 194 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (112), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.8 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 Tiger Point?
From about Nov 6 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tiger Point's scale — its 9b band and its 299-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tiger Point'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 Tiger Point’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Tiger Point's own scale — the 899 acres it covers and 194 documented sites around it; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tiger Point's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 194 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tiger Point, the closest Brownfields record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tiger Point's boundary and the 899 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Tiger Point sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Tiger Pointlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Tiger Point has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Santa Rosa County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tiger Point's 899 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Santa Rosa County
- The candidate plant list — Florida's curated set, filtered to this zone band and re-ordered by how much margin each has herefrom Florida
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Santa Rosa 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 Santa Rosa County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tiger Point's 899 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tiger Point you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 899 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.8 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 Tiger Point-wide figureread your own land →