Camilla, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
These conditions suit artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Camilla, 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 Camilla lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Camilla — the short answer
Camilla, Georgia: USDA zone 9a, about 290 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 18
- Mitchell County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 5
- Mitchell County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~290
- Mitchell County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 4K 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 Mitchell County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Camilla's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Camilla's 290-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Camilla
Each reading below is measured for Camilla itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsCamilla runs about 290 days between hard freezes (read from Mitchell County, the closest normal to Camilla) — 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
MeasuredCamilla sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Camilla is in
Camilla sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Camilla's own centroid rather than borrowed from Mitchell County.
What Grows in Camilla
Every plant below cleared Camilla's own zone 9a and its 290-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Camilla?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Camilla
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Camilla. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KUSH MITT OF CAMILLA LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- MERRIMAC GULFUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- VACANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- BOBS GROCERY #2Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- GA FCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- TRI STATE SUPPLY COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- 12H003Nitrate · 1200 ft
- CAMILLA PUBLIC SAFETY COMPLEX (PUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- FLINT RIVER FORD INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- GOLDEN PEANUT COMPANYBrownfields · 1500 ft
- 12H004Nitrate · 1600 ft
- BST/CAMILLA R2317Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Camilla'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 Camilla.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Camilla
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Camilla
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Camilla, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Camilla — Toxics Release Inventory (9 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (90 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Camilla
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 Camilla average
Your land is one point inside Camilla
Everything above resolves to Camilla as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 4K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Mitchell County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’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 city 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 Camilla Average
Camilla Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Camilla
- ●One soil character for all of Camilla
- ●Frost dates read at Camilla's scale: Feb 18 to Dec 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Camilla's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Camilla
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Camilla, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Camilla averages can't show:
We read public map data around Camilla — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Camilla average
How we know this about Camilla
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Mitchell 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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Camilla
When does frost risk typically end in Camilla?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Camilla typically lands around Feb 18, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Camilla?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Camilla typically arrives around Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 21, so the watching starts about Nov 5 — about 290 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Camilla?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Camilla sees about 290 frost-free days — roughly Feb 18 through Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 11 to Nov 21, about 255 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Camilla?
The federal record around Camilla is a meaningful one — 133 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (90), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Camilla?
From about Nov 5 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Camilla's scale — its 9a band and its 290-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Camilla'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 Camilla’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Camilla's own scale — the 4,225 acres it covers and 133 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Camilla's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 133 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Camilla, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Camilla's boundary and the 4,225 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~290-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Camilla's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Camilla has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Mitchell County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Camilla's 4,225 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Mitchell County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Mitchell 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 Mitchell County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Camilla's 4,225 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Camilla you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,225 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Camilla-wide figureread your own land →
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