Camanche North Shore, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include tomato, artichoke, fig, and california poppy, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Camanche North Shore, 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 Camanche North Shore lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Camanche North Shore — the short answer
Camanche North Shore, California: USDA zone 9b, about 291 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 21
- Amador County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 9
- Amador County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~291
- Amador County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Amador County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Camanche North Shore's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Camanche North Shore's 291-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Camanche North Shore
Each reading below is measured for Camanche North Shore itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsCamanche North Shore runs about 291 days between hard freezes (read from Amador County, the closest normal to Camanche North Shore) — 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
MeasuredCamanche North Shore 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 Camanche North Shore is in
Camanche North Shore sits in the Central California Foothills and Coastal Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Mediterranean California. That is read at Camanche North Shore's own centroid rather than borrowed from Amador County.
What Grows in Camanche North Shore
Plants matched to Camanche North Shore'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 Camanche North Shore?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 9 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Camanche North Shore
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Camanche North Shore. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Camanche Blues StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- LK CAMANCHE WELL #12Brownfields · 2300 ft
- BESTWAY SHORTLOAD CONC INCBrownfields · 2400 ft
- EBMUD CAMANCHE NORTH SHORE RECREATION AREABrownfields · 2500 ft
- CAMANCHE HILLS HUNTING PRESERVE INCBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- 005N009E22K001MNitrate · 2.1 mi
- 004N009E14B001MNitrate · 2.6 mi
- JACKSON VALLEY ENERGY LPToxics Release Inventory · 2.9 mi
- JACKSON VALLEY ENERGY LPBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- LAKE CAMANCHE RECREATION COMPANY SOUTH SHOREBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- EAST BAY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT - CASS RECBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- 005N009E21E001MNitrate · 3.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Camanche North Shore'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 Camanche North Shore.
Total Sites
247
within ~10 miles of Camanche North Shore
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Camanche North Shore
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Camanche North Shore
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Camanche North Shore, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Camanche North Shore — Mining (72 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Camanche North Shore
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Your land is one point inside Camanche North Shore
Everything above resolves to Camanche North Shore as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Amador 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 Camanche North Shore Average
Camanche North Shore Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Camanche North Shore
- ●One soil character for all of Camanche North Shore
- ●Frost dates read at Camanche North Shore's scale: Feb 21 to Dec 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Camanche North Shore's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Camanche North Shore
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Three things about your lot that Camanche North Shore averages can't show:
We read public map data around Camanche North Shore — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Camanche North Shore average
How we know this about Camanche North Shore
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 Amador 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 Camanche North Shore
When does frost risk typically end in Camanche North Shore?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Camanche North Shore typically lands around Feb 21, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Camanche North Shore?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Camanche North Shore typically arrives around Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 25, so the watching starts about Nov 9 — about 291 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Camanche North Shore?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Camanche North Shore sees about 291 frost-free days — roughly Feb 21 through Dec 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 14 to Nov 25, about 256 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Camanche North Shore?
The federal record around Camanche North Shore is a meaningful one — 247 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (91), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Camanche North Shore?
From about Nov 9 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Camanche North Shore's scale — its 9b band and its 291-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Camanche North Shore'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 Camanche North Shore’s own scale
4 of the readings below were taken at Camanche North Shore's own scale — the 1,492 acres it covers and 247 documented sites around it; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Camanche North Shore's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 247 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Camanche North Shore, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Camanche North Shore's boundary and the 1,492 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- The ecoregion at Camanche North Shore's own centroid, the Central California Foothills and Coastal MountainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Camanche North Shore has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Amador County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Camanche North Shore's 1,492 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Amador County
- The candidate plant list — California's curated set, filtered to this zone band and re-ordered by how much margin each has herefrom California
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Amador County
- The growing challenges every California grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom California
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Amador County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Camanche North Shore's 1,492 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Camanche North Shore you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,492 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Camanche North Shore-wide figureread your own land →