Woodlawn Beach, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Well-matched crops include tomato, sweet potato, jalapeno, and loquat, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Woodlawn Beach, 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 Woodlawn Beach lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Woodlawn Beach — the short answer
Woodlawn Beach, Florida: USDA zone 9b, about 299 days between hard freezes, across 2K 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
- 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 Santa Rosa County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Woodlawn Beach's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodlawn Beach's 299-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodlawn Beach
Each reading below is measured for Woodlawn Beach itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWoodlawn Beach runs about 299 days between hard freezes (read from Santa Rosa County, the closest normal to Woodlawn Beach) — 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
MeasuredWoodlawn Beach 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 Woodlawn Beach is in
Woodlawn Beach sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodlawn Beach'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 Woodlawn Beach
Plants matched to Woodlawn Beach'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 Woodlawn Beach?
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. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
Documented around Woodlawn Beach
Spotted lanternfly documented 26 miles from Woodlawn Beach, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Woodlawn Beach
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodlawn Beach. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WOODLAWN BEACH MIDDLE SCHOOLBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- WRECKER RICKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- TEXACO FOOD STORE #4425Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- QUICK FOOD MART #7Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- TYLERS AUTO SERVICEBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- TEXACO-GREENSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- FRECH CONSTRUCTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- GULF BREEZE ZOOBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- TOM THUMB FOOD STORE #140Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- MIDWAY WATER SYSTEM, INC.PFAS · 1.7 mi
- GULF BREEZE REGIONAL WATERPFAS · 1.7 mi
- MIDWAY SANITATION SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodlawn Beach'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 Woodlawn Beach.
Total Sites
126
within ~10 miles of Woodlawn Beach
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodlawn Beach
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodlawn Beach
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodlawn Beach, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 4 sites within ~10 miles of Woodlawn Beach. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Woodlawn Beach
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 Woodlawn Beach average
Your land is one point inside Woodlawn Beach
Everything above resolves to Woodlawn Beach as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K 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 Woodlawn Beach Average
Woodlawn Beach Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Woodlawn Beach
- ●One soil character for all of Woodlawn Beach
- ●Frost dates read at Woodlawn Beach's scale: Feb 10 to Dec 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodlawn Beach's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodlawn Beach
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodlawn Beach, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodlawn Beach averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodlawn Beach — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodlawn Beach average
How we know this about Woodlawn Beach
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 Woodlawn Beach
When does frost risk typically end in Woodlawn Beach?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodlawn Beach 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 Woodlawn Beach?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodlawn Beach 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 Woodlawn Beach?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodlawn Beach 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 Woodlawn Beach?
The federal record around Woodlawn Beach is a meaningful one — 126 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (63), 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 Woodlawn Beach?
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 Woodlawn Beach's scale — its 9b band and its 299-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodlawn Beach'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 Woodlawn Beach’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Woodlawn Beach's own scale — the 1,519 acres it covers and 126 documented sites around it; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodlawn Beach's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 126 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodlawn Beach, the closest Brownfields record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodlawn Beach's boundary and the 1,519 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Woodlawn Beach 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 Woodlawn Beachlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Woodlawn Beach 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 Woodlawn Beach's 1,519 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 Woodlawn Beach's 1,519 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodlawn Beach you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,519 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 Woodlawn Beach-wide figureread your own land →