Bogota, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Bogota, 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 Bogota lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Bogota — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Bogota — the short answer
Bogota, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 254 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~254
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Bogota's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bogota's 254-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bogota
Each reading below is measured for Bogota itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBogota runs about 254 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
MeasuredBogota 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 Bogota is in
Bogota sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bogota's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Dyer County is mostly Mississippi Valley Loess Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Bogota
Every plant below cleared Bogota's own zone 7b and its 254-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bogota?
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 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Bogota
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bogota. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Bogota SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- 3 B'sUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Miston FarmUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- Lock's StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Dunlap Farms IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- Bogota 76Underground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- Lane GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- Lecklitner FarmsUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- Billies Party StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- Lk:C-001Nitrate · 5.2 mi
- RIDGELY WATER SYSTEMPFAS · 5.4 mi
- James Hall Shaw FarmUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bogota'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 Bogota.
Total Sites
236
within ~10 miles of Bogota
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
17 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bogota
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bogota
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bogota, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Bogota — PFAS (4 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (178 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.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Bogota
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 Bogota average
Your land is one point inside Bogota
Everything above resolves to Bogota as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Bogota Average
Bogota Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Bogota
- ●One soil character for all of Bogota
- ●Frost dates read at Bogota's scale: Mar 12 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bogota's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bogota
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bogota, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bogota averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bogota — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bogota average
How we know this about Bogota
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 Bogota’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 Bogota
When does frost risk typically end in Bogota?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bogota typically lands around Mar 12, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Bogota?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bogota typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 254 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bogota?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bogota sees about 254 frost-free days — roughly Mar 12 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 2 to Nov 7, about 219 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bogota?
The federal record around Bogota is a meaningful one — 236 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (178), 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 Bogota?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bogota's scale — its 7b band and its 254-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bogota'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 Bogota’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Bogota's own scale — its own ~254-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,548 acres it covers and 236 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bogota's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bogota's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 12 and Nov 21 and the ~254-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 236 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bogota, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bogota's boundary and the 1,548 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~254-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Bogota sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bogota's 1,548 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dyer County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dyer 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 Dyer County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bogota's 1,548 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bogota you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,548 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 Bogota-wide figureread your own land →