Artemus, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Artemus, 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 Artemus lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Artemus — the short answer
Artemus, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 864 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~214
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 864 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 7a is Artemus's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Artemus's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Artemus
Each reading below is measured for Artemus itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredArtemus runs about 214 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
MeasuredArtemus sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Artemus is in
Artemus sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Artemus's own centroid rather than borrowed from Knox County.
What Grows in Artemus
Every plant below cleared Artemus's own zone 7a and its 214-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Artemus?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Artemus
Survey cells within 31 miles of Artemus checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 91 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Artemus
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Artemus. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- John Mills GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Murphys MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- DON TAYLOR FARMSuperfund · 2400 ft
- Down Home MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- A & B Quick Stop #2Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Double C Properties LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- American Highwall Mining LLC - AHM TippleUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Gatliff Coal Co-Barbourville TippleUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Old Phillips 66 StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- Easterly PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- TRU SEAL TECHNOLOGIES INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.6 mi
- TRU SEAL TECHNOLOGIES INCBrownfields · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Artemus'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 Artemus.
Total Sites
155
within ~10 miles of Artemus
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Artemus
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Artemus
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Artemus, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 124 sites within ~10 miles of Artemus. 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.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Artemus
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 Artemus
Everything above resolves to Artemus as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 864 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 Artemus Average
Artemus Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Artemus
- ●One soil character for all of Artemus
- ●Frost dates read at Artemus's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Artemus's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Artemus
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Artemus, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Artemus averages can't show:
We read public map data around Artemus — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Artemus
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 Artemus’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 Artemus
When does frost risk typically end in Artemus?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Artemus typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Artemus?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Artemus typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Artemus?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Artemus sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 18, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Artemus?
The federal record around Artemus is a meaningful one — 155 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (124), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Artemus?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Artemus's scale — its 7a band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Artemus'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 Artemus’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Artemus's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 864 acres it covers and 155 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Artemus's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Artemus's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 1 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 155 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Artemus, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Artemus's boundary and the 864 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~214-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Artemus's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Artemus 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 Artemus's 864 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Knox County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Knox 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 Knox County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Artemus's 864 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Artemus you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 864 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 Artemus-wide figureread your own land →
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