Woodville, Florida, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Growers here do well with artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Woodville, 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 Woodville 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 Woodville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Woodville — the short answer
Woodville, Florida: USDA zone 9a, about 296 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 15
- Leon County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 8
- Leon County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~296
- Leon County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Leon County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Woodville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodville's 296-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodville
Each reading below is measured for Woodville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsWoodville runs about 296 days between hard freezes (read from Leon County, the closest normal to Woodville) — 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
MeasuredWoodville sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Woodville is in
Woodville sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Leon County is mostly Southeastern Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Woodville
Every plant below cleared Woodville's own zone 9a and its 296-day season. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodville?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 8 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Woodville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MAS1-3 4IN WELLNitrate · 0.7 mi
- ROBERT THOMAS JUNIORBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- WOODVILLE GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- SEMINOLE BAIT & TACKLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- INLAND FOOD STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- ERIC NEW & USED TIRESBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- CIRCLE K #2723907Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- TRANSMISSION ETCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- RENTZ MARINE SERVICEBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- T CUSTOMSBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- GULF COAST LUMBER COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- WARD PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodville'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 Woodville.
Total Sites
816
within ~10 miles of Woodville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
6 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodville
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 Woodville
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 Woodville average
Your land is one point inside Woodville
Everything above resolves to Woodville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 5K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Leon 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 Woodville Average
Woodville Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Woodville
- ●One soil character for all of Woodville
- ●Frost dates read at Woodville's scale: Feb 15 to Dec 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodville's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodville, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodville average
How we know this about Woodville
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 Leon 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 Woodville
When does frost risk typically end in Woodville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodville typically lands around Feb 15, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Woodville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodville typically arrives around Dec 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 24, so the watching starts about Nov 8 — about 296 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodville sees about 296 frost-free days — roughly Feb 15 through Dec 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 8 to Nov 24, about 261 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodville?
The federal record around Woodville is a meaningful one — 816 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (421), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.7 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 Woodville?
From about Nov 8 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodville's scale — its 9a band and its 296-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodville'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 Woodville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Woodville's own scale — the 5,405 acres it covers and 816 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 816 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodville, the closest Nitrate record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodville's boundary and the 5,405 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~296-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Woodville sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Woodville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Leon County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodville's 5,405 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Leon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Leon 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 Leon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodville's 5,405 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,405 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.7 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 Woodville-wide figureread your own land →