Camargo, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Camargo, 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 Camargo lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Camargo — the short answer
Camargo, Kentucky: USDA zone 6b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 1K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 6b is Camargo's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Camargo's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Camargo
Each reading below is measured for Camargo itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCamargo runs about 217 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCamargo sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Camargo is in
Camargo sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Camargo's own centroid rather than borrowed from Montgomery County.
What Grows in Camargo
Every plant below cleared Camargo's own zone 6b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Camargo?
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 Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Camargo
Survey cells within 31 miles of Camargo checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 72 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Camargo
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Camargo. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Town & Country Minute MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- W C Long PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Paul Murphy Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Jones GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Byrd PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Raymond Young PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Finish Line (Camargo Shell)Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Camargo Elementary School AdditionUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- First Class #12Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Parcel 77Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- Billy Amburgey SupplyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- Kens Auto PartsUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Camargo'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 Camargo.
Total Sites
202
within ~10 miles of Camargo
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Camargo
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Camargo
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Camargo, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Camargo — Underground Storage Tanks (156 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (13 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Camargo
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 Camargo average
Your land is one point inside Camargo
Everything above resolves to Camargo as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K acres. 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 Camargo Average
Camargo Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Camargo
- ●One soil character for all of Camargo
- ●Frost dates read at Camargo's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Camargo's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Camargo
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Camargo, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Camargo averages can't show:
We read public map data around Camargo — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Camargo average
How we know this about Camargo
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 Camargo’s own record; 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 Camargo
When does frost risk typically end in Camargo?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Camargo typically lands around Apr 2, 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 Apr 23.
When is the first frost in Camargo?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Camargo typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Camargo?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Camargo sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 22, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Camargo?
The federal record around Camargo is a meaningful one — 202 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (156), 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 Camargo?
From about Oct 6 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 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 Nov 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Camargo's scale — its 6b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Camargo'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 Camargo’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Camargo's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,400 acres it covers and 202 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Camargo's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Camargo's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 5 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 202 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Camargo, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Camargo's boundary and the 1,400 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Camargo's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Camargo checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Camargo's 1,400 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Montgomery County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Montgomery County
- The growing challenges every Kentucky grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kentucky
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Montgomery County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Camargo's 1,400 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Camargo you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,400 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 Camargo-wide figureread your own land →
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