Titusville, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Titusville, 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 Titusville 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 Titusville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Titusville — the short answer
Titusville, Florida: USDA zone 10a, about 333 days between hard freezes, across 19K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 10a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~333
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 19K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 10a is Titusville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Titusville's 333-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Titusville
Each reading below is measured for Titusville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTitusville runs about 333 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredTitusville 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 Titusville is in
Titusville sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Titusville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Brevard County.
What Grows in Titusville
Every plant below cleared Titusville's own zone 10a and its 333-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Titusville?
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 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 18 — 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 Titusville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Titusville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BREVARD COUNTY JACKSON MIDDLE SCHOOLBrownfields · 1000 ft
- SUNSHINE FOOD MART #225Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- ROYAL OAK GOLF CLUB INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- TITUSVILLE CITY-FIELD OPERATIONSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- COQUINA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- WALGREENS STORE #1990Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- GIANT #213Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- WINN-DIXIE #2326Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- ANSON KEN CONSTRUCTION INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- SUNSHINE FOOD MART #84Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CUMBERLAND FARMS #1001Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Titusville'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 Titusville.
Total Sites
328
within ~10 miles of Titusville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Titusville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Titusville
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 Titusville
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 Titusville average
Your land is one point inside Titusville
Everything above resolves to Titusville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 19K 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 city 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 Titusville Average
Titusville Average
- ●USDA Zones 10a, averaged across Titusville
- ●One soil character for all of Titusville
- ●Frost dates read at Titusville's scale: Jan 19 to Dec 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Titusville's 10a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Titusville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Titusville, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Titusville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Titusville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Titusville average
How we know this about Titusville
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Titusville’s own record; 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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Titusville
When does frost risk typically end in Titusville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Titusville 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 Titusville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Titusville typically arrives around Dec 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 4, so the watching starts about Nov 18 — about 333 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Titusville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Titusville sees about 333 frost-free days — roughly Jan 19 through Dec 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 9 to Dec 4, about 298 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Titusville?
The federal record around Titusville is a meaningful one — 328 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (166), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Titusville?
From about Nov 18 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Titusville's scale — its 10a band and its 333-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Titusville'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 Titusville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Titusville's own scale — its own ~333-day season between 28°F freezes, the 18,656 acres it covers and 328 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Titusville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Titusville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Jan 19 and Dec 18 and the ~333-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 328 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Titusville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Titusville's boundary and the 18,656 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 10a and a ~333-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Titusville's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Titusville's 18,656 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 Titusville's 18,656 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Titusville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 18,656 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 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 Titusville-wide figureread your own land →
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