Kingsland, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Kingsland, 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 Kingsland lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kingsland — the short answer
Kingsland, Georgia: USDA zone 9a, about 303 days between hard freezes, across 29K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 15
- Camden County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 15
- Camden County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~303
- Camden County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 29K 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 Camden County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Kingsland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kingsland's 303-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kingsland
Each reading below is measured for Kingsland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsKingsland runs about 303 days between hard freezes (read from Camden County, the closest normal to Kingsland) — 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
MeasuredKingsland 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 Kingsland is in
Kingsland sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kingsland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Camden County.
What Grows in Kingsland
Every plant below cleared Kingsland's own zone 9a and its 303-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kingsland?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 15 — 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 Kingsland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kingsland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MOM & POP STORE #1Underground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- 31E001Nitrate · 2.7 mi
- 32E031Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- 31E013Nitrate · 5.1 mi
- KALES COUNTRY CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- JAMIE ULMERUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- ADENS MINIT MART #80Underground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- TOP QUALITY PAINT AND BODYBrownfields · 6.1 mi
- FORMER GAS STATION-NAME UNKNOWNUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- FLASH FOODS #124Underground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- CITY OF KINGSLANDUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- 29E012Nitrate · 6.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kingsland'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 Kingsland.
Total Sites
106
within ~10 miles of Kingsland
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kingsland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kingsland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kingsland, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 69 sites within ~10 miles of Kingsland. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Kingsland
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 Kingsland average
Your land is one point inside Kingsland
Everything above resolves to Kingsland as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 29K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Camden 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 Kingsland Average
Kingsland Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Kingsland
- ●One soil character for all of Kingsland
- ●Frost dates read at Kingsland's scale: Feb 15 to Dec 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kingsland's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kingsland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kingsland, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kingsland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kingsland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kingsland average
How we know this about Kingsland
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 Camden 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 Kingsland
When does frost risk typically end in Kingsland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kingsland typically lands around Feb 15, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Kingsland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kingsland typically arrives around Dec 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 1, so the watching starts about Nov 15 — about 303 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kingsland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kingsland sees about 303 frost-free days — roughly Feb 15 through Dec 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 8 to Dec 1, about 268 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kingsland?
The federal record around Kingsland shows 106 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (69), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.6 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 Kingsland?
From about Nov 15 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kingsland's scale — its 9a band and its 303-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kingsland'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 Kingsland’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Kingsland's own scale — the 28,647 acres it covers and 106 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kingsland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 106 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kingsland, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kingsland's boundary and the 28,647 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~303-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kingsland's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Kingsland has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Camden County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kingsland's 28,647 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Camden County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Camden 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 Camden County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kingsland's 28,647 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kingsland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 28,647 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.6 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 Kingsland-wide figureread your own land →
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