Coopertown, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Coopertown, 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 Coopertown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Coopertown — the short answer
Coopertown, Tennessee: USDA zone 7a, about 229 days between hard freezes, across 20K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~229
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 20K 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 Coopertown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Coopertown's 229-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Coopertown
Each reading below is measured for Coopertown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCoopertown runs about 229 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
MeasuredCoopertown 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 Coopertown is in
Coopertown sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Coopertown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Robertson County.
What Grows in Coopertown
Every plant below cleared Coopertown's own zone 7a and its 229-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Coopertown?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — 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 Coopertown
Spotted lanternfly documented 25 miles from Coopertown, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Coopertown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Coopertown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- South Central-psvwtnmtUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Plesant View Utility Dist.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Food And Drug MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Westside 66Underground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- Springfield Dist OfficeUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- Sudden Service #47Underground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- Mapco Express #1007Underground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- LOWE'S NASHVILLE, TN DFC #3311Brownfields · 3.2 mi
- 49 MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- Pleasant View Christian SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Pleasant View AutomotiveUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Country CupboardUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Coopertown'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 Coopertown.
Total Sites
175
within ~10 miles of Coopertown
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
16 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Coopertown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Coopertown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Coopertown, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Coopertown — PFAS (4 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (16 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Coopertown
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 Coopertown average
Your land is one point inside Coopertown
Everything above resolves to Coopertown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 20K 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 Coopertown Average
Coopertown Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Coopertown
- ●One soil character for all of Coopertown
- ●Frost dates read at Coopertown's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Coopertown's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Coopertown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Coopertown, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Coopertown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Coopertown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Coopertown average
How we know this about Coopertown
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 Coopertown’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 Coopertown
When does frost risk typically end in Coopertown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Coopertown typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Coopertown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Coopertown typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 229 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Coopertown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Coopertown sees about 229 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Oct 25, about 194 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Coopertown?
The federal record around Coopertown shows 175 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (129), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.5 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Coopertown?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Coopertown's scale — its 7a band and its 229-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Coopertown'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 Coopertown’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Coopertown's own scale — its own ~229-day season between 28°F freezes, the 20,224 acres it covers and 175 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Coopertown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Coopertown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 8 and the ~229-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 175 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Coopertown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Coopertown's boundary and the 20,224 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~229-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Coopertown's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Coopertownlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Coopertown's 20,224 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Robertson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Robertson 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 Robertson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Coopertown's 20,224 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Coopertown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 20,224 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.5 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 Coopertown-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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