Camanche Village, California, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include tomato, artichoke, fig, and california poppy — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Camanche Village, 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 Village 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 Village — the short answer
Camanche Village, California: USDA zone 9b, about 291 days between hard freezes, across 3K 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
- 3K 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 Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Camanche Village'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 Village
Each reading below is measured for Camanche Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsCamanche Village runs about 291 days between hard freezes (read from Amador County, the closest normal to Camanche Village) — 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 Village 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 Village is in
Camanche Village sits in the Central California Foothills and Coastal Mountains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Mediterranean California. That is read at Camanche Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Amador County.
What Grows in Camanche Village
Plants matched to Camanche Village'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 Village?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Camanche Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Camanche Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 005N009E21E001MNitrate · 0.7 mi
- 005N009E22K001MNitrate · 0.9 mi
- CAMANCHE HILLS HUNTING PRESERVE INCBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- LK CAMANCHE WELL #12Brownfields · 2.2 mi
- Camanche Blues StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- BESTWAY SHORTLOAD CONC INCBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- EBMUD CAMANCHE NORTH SHORE RECREATION AREABrownfields · 2.8 mi
- 004N009E06E001MNitrate · 3.8 mi
- JACKSON VALLEY ENERGY LPBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- JACKSON VALLEY ENERGY LPToxics Release Inventory · 3.9 mi
- EAST BAY MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT - CAMANCHE DAM POWERHOUSEBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- 004N008E01H001MNitrate · 4.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Camanche Village'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 Village.
Total Sites
233
within ~10 miles of Camanche Village
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Camanche Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Camanche Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Camanche Village, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Camanche Village — Mining (63 sites) and Nitrate (70 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Camanche Village
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 Camanche Village average
Your land is one point inside Camanche Village
Everything above resolves to Camanche Village as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 3K 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 Village Average
Camanche Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Camanche Village
- ●One soil character for all of Camanche Village
- ●Frost dates read at Camanche Village's scale: Feb 21 to Dec 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Camanche Village's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Camanche Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Camanche Village, California — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Camanche Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Camanche Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Camanche Village average
How we know this about Camanche Village
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 Village
When does frost risk typically end in Camanche Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Camanche Village 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 Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Camanche Village 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 Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Camanche Village 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 Village?
The federal record around Camanche Village is a meaningful one — 233 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (83), 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 Camanche Village?
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 Village's scale — its 9b band and its 291-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Camanche Village'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 Village’s own scale
4 of the readings below were taken at Camanche Village's own scale — the 3,480 acres it covers and 233 documented sites around it; 6 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Camanche Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 233 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Camanche Village, the closest Nitrate record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Camanche Village's boundary and the 3,480 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- The ecoregion at Camanche Village'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 Village 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 Village's 3,480 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 Village's 3,480 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Camanche Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,480 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 Camanche Village-wide figureread your own land →
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