Bean Station, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bean Station, 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 Bean Station lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bean Station — the short answer
Bean Station, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 226 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- 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
- ~226
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 4K 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 Bean Station's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bean Station's 226-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bean Station
Each reading below is measured for Bean Station itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBean Station runs about 226 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
MeasuredBean Station 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 Bean Station is in
Bean Station sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bean Station's own centroid rather than borrowed from Grainger County.
What Grows in Bean Station
Every plant below cleared Bean Station's own zone 7b and its 226-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bean Station?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Bean Station
Survey cells within 31 miles of Bean Station checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 61 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bean Station
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bean Station. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Bean Station Gulf ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Tn Div Of ForestryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Adkins Gulf SerUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Hee Haw Market#1Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Conoco # 42001Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- By-lo Market # 44Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Midway Trk StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Norris HomesUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- CLAYTON BEAN STATIONToxics Release Inventory · 0.9 mi
- CLAYTON BEAN STATIONBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- Bean Station Furniture FactoryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- By-Lo Market No.26Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bean Station'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 Bean Station.
Total Sites
384
within ~10 miles of Bean Station
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bean Station
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bean Station
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bean Station, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Bean Station — Toxics Release Inventory (36 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (267 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Bean Station
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 Bean Station
Everything above resolves to Bean Station as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Bean Station Average
Bean Station Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Bean Station
- ●One soil character for all of Bean Station
- ●Frost dates read at Bean Station's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bean Station's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bean Station
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bean Station, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bean Station averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bean Station — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bean Station average
How we know this about Bean Station
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 Bean Station’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 Bean Station
When does frost risk typically end in Bean Station?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bean Station typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Bean Station?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bean Station 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 226 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bean Station?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bean Station sees about 226 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 24, about 191 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bean Station?
The federal record around Bean Station is a meaningful one — 384 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (267), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Bean Station?
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 Bean Station's scale — its 7b band and its 226-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bean Station'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 Bean Station’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bean Station's own scale — its own ~226-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,788 acres it covers and 384 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bean Station's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bean Station's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 7 and the ~226-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 384 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bean Station, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bean Station's boundary and the 3,788 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~226-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bean Station's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Bean Station 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 Bean Station's 3,788 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Grainger County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Grainger 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 Grainger County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bean Station's 3,788 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bean Station you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,788 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Bean Station-wide figureread your own land →
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