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Planting zones in Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL

Every ZIP code in this metro is USDA zone 10a. That is unusual — most metros span several zones — and it means the one number people usually look up is the same wherever you are here.

USDA zone 10a The same in all 9 ZIP codes
ZIP codes 9 9 have a NOAA station within range
Weather stations 2 NOAA 1991–2020 normals, across 503 sq mi

Your ZIP code

Get the exact answer for your address

Everything above describes Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL as a whole. Hardiness zones and freeze dates are published per ZIP code, so yours is exact — enter it and this page will tell you your zone, which NOAA station it comes from and how far away that station is.

Works for all 40,502 US ZIP codes. Freeze dates need a NOAA station within 100 km; where there is none, the page says so rather than estimating one.

What you can sow in Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL now

14 of 32 crops that every one of the 2 NOAA stations serving this metro area agrees still has time to mature — with a week in hand, so this holds until the page is next rebuilt.

The freeze dates here cross the new year, so no single range describes them and none is quoted. Each ZIP code's own station is cited in the lookup above.

A further 1 crop depends on where in Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL you are — its stations disagree about it. The ZIP lookup above settles it for one address.

The growing season at one or more of this metro area's stations crosses 1 January, so a one-year bar would have to start the season after it ended. No chart is drawn rather than a misleading one.

Your freeze dates

No freeze range is shown for Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL, because the freeze window here crosses New Year, so an earliest-to-latest range would be arithmetic on dates that do not sit in order. The tools below still answer for individual ZIP codes here, and will say what applies.

Your growing season

NOAA publishes a growing-season length for each station, and across the 2 stations serving Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL it runs 343–365 days . That figure is published, not computed from the two freeze dates — subtracting one from the other gives the wrong answer wherever a season crosses New Year. Mean summer high (June–August) runs 90–91 °F , at or above the 90 °F point where cool-season crops bolt and tomato and pepper pollen fails — so midsummer sowings of lettuce and its relatives are worth holding here. Summer rain over the same months runs 20.5–21.3" across those 2 stations, against the rough inch a week — about 13 inches over the same 92 days — that a vegetable garden is usually reckoned to want. At the middle station that is covered, so watering in Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL is for the gaps between storms rather than the whole season. The inches are NOAA's published normals; the inch a week is a rule of thumb, and it takes no account of a 91 °F summer afternoon drying the soil faster than a cool one.

What lives through a zone 10a winter

Winter hardiness runs on the zone alone, so this one is exact for the whole of Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL rather than a range. Of 74 perennial fruits, nuts, berries, vegetables and herbs, 25 come through a zone 10a winter — and 49 of the failures are not about cold at all, but about winters too mild to break dormancy or summers too hot.

Among them: Mint, Greek Oregano, Mulberry, Jujube, Wine Grape, Asian Persimmon, Fig, Cardoon. See the full list with reasons.

At least one station here freezes across the new year, which puts the two ends of a spread on opposite sides of the calendar. Drawing it would produce a bar spanning almost the whole year and meaning nothing, so none is drawn.

The 2 stations behind these numbers

The 2 NOAA stations serving Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL A relative sketch of where the stations sit, about 29 kilometres north to south. Each is named with its NOAA identifier in the station list on this page, which carries the same information as text. PALM BAY, FL US (USC00086761)VERO BEACH 4SE, FL US (USC00089219) ~29 km north to south

All 2 NOAA stations whose normals this page quotes, spanning about 29 km north to south. Every one is named with its identifier in the station list below — this page does not single one out, because no one station speaks for a whole metro area.

A relative sketch, not a map with a projection: longitude is adjusted for latitude so the shape is not stretched, and there is no basemap. For the one station nearest a specific address, with its real distance, use the ZIP lookup above.

Every figure above comes from these, and each is named so you can check it. Which station serves a given ZIP code, and how far away it is, varies across the metro — the table below gives it per ZIP code rather than this page averaging it.

Station NOAA ID Last spring freeze First fall freeze Season
Palm Bay, FL USC00086761 January 30 January 11 343 days
Vero Beach 4Se, FL USC00089219 January 18 January 13 365 days

These are medians, not averages — NOAA publishes freeze dates as a probability distribution, and half of years freeze later than the date shown.

Every ZIP code in Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL

Zones are published per ZIP code, not per metro area, so this is the exact answer rather than the metro area's average. The station column is the nearest one to that ZIP code's centroid and how far away it is — the same figure the tools use, shown here so you can see which ZIP codes are well covered and which are reaching.

ZIP code USDA zone Nearest NOAA station Distance
32948 10a Palm Bay, FL 17.4 km
32958 10a Vero Beach 4Se, FL 18.0 km
32960 10a Vero Beach 4Se, FL 1.3 km
32962 10a Vero Beach 4Se, FL 7.9 km
32963 10a Vero Beach 4Se, FL 7.3 km
32966 10a Palm Bay, FL 26.3 km
32967 10a Vero Beach 4Se, FL 8.6 km
32968 10a Vero Beach 4Se, FL 12.3 km
32970 10a Vero Beach 4Se, FL 12.2 km

ZIP-code positions are area centroids, so a large rural ZIP code's listed distance is measured from the middle of its area rather than from any particular address in it.

Your own ZIP

Work out your own dates

Each of these takes a ZIP code and answers for that ZIP alone, citing the station it used and how far away it is. There is a ZIP box in the header of every page.

Other places to compare

These metros are also entirely zone 10a, so the winter answer here is the same one they get — the freeze dates and the spring calendar are their own.

Gardening in Florida — zones 8b– 11b covers the whole state: how its 1,008 ZIP codes divide between 7 hardiness zones, and the freeze dates across every NOAA station in it.

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Where these numbers come from

The hardiness zone is the USDA 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map, published per ZIP code by PRISM at Oregon State. The freeze dates are NOAA's 1991–2020 Climate Normals, read from every station whose normals cover a ZIP code in this metro. Nothing here is estimated, and no station stands in for another.

This page names no single station on purpose. Picking one to represent a metro sounds reasonable and is not: the station serving the most ZIP codes is an artifact of where ZIP centroids happen to fall, and it selects a lock on the Monongahela for Pittsburgh and a far southern suburb for Chicago. A range across every station is true; a single cited date for a whole metro is not.

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