Caryville, Tennessee, 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 Caryville, 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 Caryville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Caryville — the short answer
Caryville, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 218 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~218
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 Caryville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Caryville's 218-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Caryville
Each reading below is measured for Caryville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCaryville runs about 218 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
MeasuredCaryville 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 Caryville is in
Caryville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Caryville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Campbell County is mostly Central Appalachians. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Caryville
Every plant below cleared Caryville's own zone 7b and its 218-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Caryville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Caryville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Caryville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CAMPOS FOODS LLCToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- MUELLER GAS PRODUCTS INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.0 mi
- SIGN RESOURCE, A ROYSTON GROUP COMPANYBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- TN0013Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Rocky Top Market No. 43Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Cove Lake AmocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Publix Oil Co.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Holiday GulfUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Cove Lake State ParkUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Caryville Water Treatment PlantUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- TRAKKER TRAILERSBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- Cracker Barrel Old Country StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Caryville'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 Caryville.
Total Sites
148
within ~10 miles of Caryville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Caryville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Caryville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Caryville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 113 sites within ~10 miles of Caryville. 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 Caryville
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 Caryville average
Your land is one point inside Caryville
Everything above resolves to Caryville 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 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 Caryville Average
Caryville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Caryville
- ●One soil character for all of Caryville
- ●Frost dates read at Caryville's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Caryville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Caryville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Caryville, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Caryville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Caryville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Caryville
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 Caryville’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 Caryville
When does frost risk typically end in Caryville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Caryville typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Caryville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Caryville typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 218 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Caryville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Caryville sees about 218 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 21, about 183 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Caryville?
The federal record around Caryville is a meaningful one — 148 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (113), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.6 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 Caryville?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Caryville's scale — its 7b band and its 218-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Caryville'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 Caryville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Caryville's own scale — its own ~218-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,556 acres it covers and 148 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Caryville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Caryville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 4 and the ~218-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 148 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Caryville, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Caryville's boundary and the 3,556 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~218-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Caryville sits in the Ridge and Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Caryville's 3,556 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Campbell County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Campbell 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 Campbell County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Caryville's 3,556 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Caryville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,556 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.6 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 Caryville-wide figureread your own land →
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