Camak, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Camak, 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 Camak lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Camak — the short answer
Camak, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 261 days between hard freezes, across 507 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 7
- Warren County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- Warren County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~261
- Warren County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 507 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 Warren County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Camak's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Camak's 261-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Camak
Each reading below is measured for Camak itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsCamak runs about 261 days between hard freezes (read from Warren County, the closest normal to Camak) — 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
MeasuredCamak sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Camak is in
Camak sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Camak's own centroid rather than borrowed from Warren County.
What Grows in Camak
Every plant below cleared Camak's own zone 8b and its 261-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Camak?
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 Feb 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 23 — 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 Camak
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Camak. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KNOX RIVERS ASPHALT PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- SOUTHERN LUMBER SPECIALTIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- CAMAK TRADING POSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- 24BB04Nitrate · 1700 ft
- THE TIMBERMEN - SAWMILLToxics Release Inventory · 1.7 mi
- GC GRIFFIN GROCERY SVC STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- ASAMA COLDWATER MANUFACTURING GEORGIAToxics Release Inventory · 2.7 mi
- ASAMA COLDWATER MANUFACTURING GEORGIABrownfields · 2.7 mi
- 24BB03Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- GEORGIA PACIFIC WOOD PRODUCTS LLC WARRENTON GAToxics Release Inventory · 2.9 mi
- GEORGIA-PACIFIC WOOD PRODUCTS LLC (WARRENTON)Brownfields · 3.0 mi
- GEORGIA-PACIFIC WOOD PRODUCTS LLC (WARRENTON)Toxics Release Inventory · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Camak'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 Camak.
Total Sites
152
within ~10 miles of Camak
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
16 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Camak
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Camak
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Camak, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Camak — Toxics Release Inventory (16 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (105 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Camak
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Camak
Everything above resolves to Camak as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 507 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Warren 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 Camak Average
Camak Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Camak
- ●One soil character for all of Camak
- ●Frost dates read at Camak's scale: Mar 7 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Camak's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Camak
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Camak, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Camak averages can't show:
We read public map data around Camak — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Camak average
How we know this about Camak
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 Warren 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 Camak
When does frost risk typically end in Camak?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Camak typically lands around Mar 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Camak?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Camak typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 261 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Camak?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Camak sees about 261 frost-free days — roughly Mar 7 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 28 to Nov 9, about 226 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Camak?
The federal record around Camak shows 152 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (105), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Camak?
From about Oct 24 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 Nov 23 (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 Nov 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Camak's scale — its 8b band and its 261-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Camak'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 Camak’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Camak's own scale — the 507 acres it covers and 152 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Camak's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 152 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Camak, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Camak's boundary and the 507 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~261-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Camak's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Camak has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Warren County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Camak's 507 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Warren County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Warren County
- The growing challenges every Georgia grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Georgia
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Warren County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Camak's 507 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Camak you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 507 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Camak-wide figureread your own land →
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