Andersonville, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Andersonville, 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 Andersonville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Andersonville — the short answer
Andersonville, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~222
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 7b is Andersonville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Andersonville's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Andersonville
Each reading below is measured for Andersonville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAndersonville runs about 222 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
MeasuredAndersonville 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 Andersonville is in
Andersonville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Andersonville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Anderson County.
What Grows in Andersonville
Every plant below cleared Andersonville's own zone 7b and its 222-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Andersonville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Andersonville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Andersonville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Andersonville General StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 75 ft
- Andersonville Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- G L Sharp Gen MdseUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- An:K-014Nitrate · 1500 ft
- Andersonville Rightway Food MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- C. L. Sharp and Son Sentry Hardware, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- R and J MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- ANDERSONVILLE MERCURY SITESuperfund · 1.0 mi
- Norris Health and RehabilitationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- CLAYTON HOMES/APPALACHIA HOMESToxics Release Inventory · 1.5 mi
- D S Carroll-norris Sporting GoodUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Norris Dam ReservationUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Andersonville'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 Andersonville.
Total Sites
204
within ~10 miles of Andersonville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Andersonville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Andersonville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Andersonville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Andersonville — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (22 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Andersonville
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 Andersonville
Everything above resolves to Andersonville 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 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 Andersonville Average
Andersonville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Andersonville
- ●One soil character for all of Andersonville
- ●Frost dates read at Andersonville's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Andersonville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Andersonville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Andersonville, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Andersonville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Andersonville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Andersonville
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 Andersonville’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 Andersonville
When does frost risk typically end in Andersonville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Andersonville typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Andersonville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Andersonville typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 222 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Andersonville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Andersonville sees about 222 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 24, about 187 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Andersonville?
The federal record around Andersonville is a meaningful one — 204 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (133), 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 Andersonville?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Andersonville's scale — its 7b band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Andersonville'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 Andersonville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Andersonville's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,036 acres it covers and 204 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Andersonville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Andersonville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 7 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 204 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Andersonville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Andersonville's boundary and the 1,036 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~222-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Andersonville's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Andersonville's 1,036 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Anderson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Anderson County
- The growing challenges every Tennessee grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Tennessee
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Anderson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Andersonville's 1,036 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Andersonville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,036 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 Andersonville-wide figureread your own land →
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