Cornersville, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Cornersville, 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 Cornersville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Cornersville — the short answer
Cornersville, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 234 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 19
- 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
- ~234
- 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 Cornersville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cornersville's 234-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cornersville
Each reading below is measured for Cornersville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCornersville runs about 234 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
MeasuredCornersville 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 Cornersville is in
Cornersville sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Cornersville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Marshall County.
What Grows in Cornersville
Every plant below cleared Cornersville's own zone 7b and its 234-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cornersville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 19 (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 Cornersville
Spotted lanternfly documented 29 miles from Cornersville, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Cornersville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cornersville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Town Of CornersvilleUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Cornersville Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Grady Ingram GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Cornersville BpUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- M And W TruckingUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Store BldgUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Quick Mart #27Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Lewisburg TransferUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Tiger ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- OWEN CORPToxics Release Inventory · 2.1 mi
- Roberson Fork GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- The Tennessean TruckstopUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cornersville'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 Cornersville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cornersville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cornersville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cornersville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Cornersville — Toxics Release Inventory (20 sites) and Superfund (4 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Cornersville
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 Cornersville average
Your land is one point inside Cornersville
Everything above resolves to Cornersville 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 Cornersville Average
Cornersville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Cornersville
- ●One soil character for all of Cornersville
- ●Frost dates read at Cornersville's scale: Mar 19 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cornersville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cornersville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cornersville, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cornersville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cornersville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cornersville average
How we know this about Cornersville
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 Cornersville’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 Cornersville
When does frost risk typically end in Cornersville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cornersville typically lands around Mar 19, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Cornersville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cornersville 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 234 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cornersville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cornersville sees about 234 frost-free days — roughly Mar 19 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 9 to Oct 25, about 199 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cornersville?
The federal record around Cornersville is a meaningful one — 178 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (89), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Cornersville?
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 Cornersville's scale — its 7b band and its 234-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cornersville'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 Cornersville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Cornersville's own scale — its own ~234-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,733 acres it covers and 178 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cornersville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cornersville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 19 and Nov 8 and the ~234-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 178 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cornersville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cornersville's boundary and the 3,733 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~234-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Cornersville's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Cornersvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cornersville's 3,733 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marshall County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marshall 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 Marshall County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cornersville's 3,733 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cornersville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,733 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Cornersville-wide figureread your own land →
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