Camp Springs, Maryland, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Camp Springs, 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 Camp Springs lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Camp Springs — the short answer
Camp Springs, Maryland: USDA zone 7b, about 242 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~242
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 7b is Camp Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Camp Springs's 242-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Camp Springs
Each reading below is measured for Camp Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCamp Springs runs about 242 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
MeasuredCamp Springs sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Camp Springs is in
Camp Springs sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Camp Springs's own centroid rather than borrowed from Prince George's County.
What Grows in Camp Springs
Every plant below cleared Camp Springs's own zone 7b and its 242-day season. Each card opens that plant's Maryland profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Camp Springs?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Camp Springs
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Camp Springs, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Camp Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Camp Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Progressive Baptist ChurchUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- J. A. Scheibel, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Old Branch CitgoUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- KAISER PERMANENTE CAMP SPRINGSBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- Howco Sanitary ProductsUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Clearview 6308 LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SHELL SERVICE STATIONBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- Global Montello Group Corp #3624Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Camp Springs ValeroUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- WAWA# 8514Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- Camp Springs Car WashUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ROYAL CUSTOM CLEANERSBrownfields · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Camp Springs'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 Camp Springs.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Camp Springs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Camp Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Camp Springs, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 58 sites within ~10 miles of Camp Springs. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Camp Springs
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 Camp Springs average
Your land is one point inside Camp Springs
Everything above resolves to Camp Springs as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 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 Camp Springs Average
Camp Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Camp Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Camp Springs
- ●Frost dates read at Camp Springs's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Camp Springs's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Camp Springs
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Camp Springs, Maryland — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Camp Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Camp Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Camp Springs average
How we know this about Camp Springs
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 Camp Springs’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 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 Camp Springs
When does frost risk typically end in Camp Springs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Camp Springs typically lands around Mar 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 Apr 11.
When is the first frost in Camp Springs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Camp Springs typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 242 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Camp Springs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Camp Springs sees about 242 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Nov 4, about 207 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Camp Springs?
The federal record around Camp Springs runs heavier than most — 3,939 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (2,134), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Camp Springs?
From about Oct 19 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Camp Springs's scale — its 7b band and its 242-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Camp Springs'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 Camp Springs’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Camp Springs's own scale — its own ~242-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,915 acres it covers and 3,939 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Camp Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Camp Springs's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 18 and the ~242-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 3,939 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Camp Springs, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Camp Springs's boundary and the 4,915 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~242-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Camp Springs's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Camp Springslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Camp Springs's 4,915 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Prince George's County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Prince George's County
- The growing challenges every Maryland grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Maryland
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Prince George's County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Camp Springs's 4,915 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Camp Springs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,915 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Camp Springs-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MarylandCamp Springs sits outside our named growing regions, so Maryland as a whole is its closest context here.
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