Yankeetown, 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 artichoke, meyer lemon, california poppy, and cabbage — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Yankeetown, 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 Yankeetown 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 Yankeetown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Yankeetown — the short answer
Yankeetown, Florida: USDA zone 9b, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (statewide)
- Jan 25 - Feb 10
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, state middle half
- First hard freeze (statewide)
- Dec 7 - Dec 18
- NOAA RCC ACIS 1991–2020, state middle half
- Town area
- 5K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Where no local normal resolves, the figure is the statewide middle-half window, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Growing Season
Zone 9b is Yankeetown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against that, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Yankeetown
Each reading below is measured for Yankeetown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Winter hardiness
MeasuredYankeetown 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
What Grows in Yankeetown
Every plant below cleared Yankeetown's own zone 9b. Each card opens that plant's Florida profile. How we score.
What's on the federal record near Yankeetown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Yankeetown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- YANKEETOWN GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- YANKEE TOWN BOAT -Underground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- B'S CYPRESS MARINA & RV CAMPGROUNDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- YANKEETOWN GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- USCG STATION YANKEETOWNBrownfields · 3.1 mi
- 90124201 17S16E08 CE 85Nitrate · 3.8 mi
- KWIK STOP #4Underground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- CIRCLE K #7234Brownfields · 4.8 mi
- 902240343 FLA POWER CORPORATION W CE62 AT INGLISNitrate · 5.2 mi
- FDEP DSCP SITE ID #188Brownfields · 5.5 mi
- BARKER CHEMICAL SITESuperfund · 5.5 mi
- INGLIS TOWN-MAINTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius.
Measured from Yankeetown'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 Yankeetown.
Total Sites
50
within ~10 miles of Yankeetown
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Yankeetown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Yankeetown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Yankeetown, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 16 sites within ~10 miles of Yankeetown. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Yankeetown
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 Yankeetown average
Your land is one point inside Yankeetown
Everything above resolves to Yankeetown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Yankeetown Average
Yankeetown Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Yankeetown
- ●One soil character for all of Yankeetown
- ●State-average frost dates
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Yankeetown's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Yankeetown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Yankeetown, Florida — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Yankeetown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Yankeetown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Yankeetown average
How we know this about Yankeetown
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 Yankeetown
When does frost risk typically end in Yankeetown?
Yankeetown has no hard-freeze normal of its own, so it follows Florida's statewide window: the middle half of counties see their last spring hard freeze (28°F) around Jan 25 - Feb 10 and their first fall hard freeze around Dec 7 - Dec 18, per NOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS (1991–2020). Frost dates shift with elevation and local microclimate, so watch your own site's cold pockets. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — light frosts can still bite for a few more weeks, so tender transplants usually wait another 2–3 weeks.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Yankeetown?
The federal record around Yankeetown is a meaningful one — 50 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (18), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.5 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 Yankeetown?
As the season closes around Florida's statewide first fall hard freeze (28°F) near Dec 7 - Dec 18 (NOAA Regional Climate Centers ACIS (1991–2020)), 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 the first hard night. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Yankeetown's scale — its 9b band and its zone 9b. Your yard writes its own version of Yankeetown'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 Yankeetown’s own scale
4 of the readings below were taken at Yankeetown's own scale — the 4,947 acres it covers and 50 documented sites around it; 3 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Yankeetown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 50 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Yankeetown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Yankeetown's boundary and the 4,947 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear Yankeetown's hardiness zoneGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
Inherited from a wider read
- The frost window — no local hard-freeze normal resolved here, so the statewide dates stand infrom Florida
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Yankeetown's 4,947 acres read through the state summaryfrom Florida
- The growing challenges every Florida grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Florida
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Yankeetown's 4,947 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Yankeetown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,947 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.5 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 Yankeetown-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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