Cumberland City, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Cumberland City, 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 Cumberland City lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Cumberland City — the short answer
Cumberland City, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 232 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~232
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 Cumberland City's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cumberland City's 232-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cumberland City
Each reading below is measured for Cumberland City itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCumberland City runs about 232 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
MeasuredCumberland City 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 Cumberland City is in
Cumberland City sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Cumberland City's own centroid rather than borrowed from Stewart County.
What Grows in Cumberland City
Every plant below cleared Cumberland City's own zone 7b and its 232-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cumberland City?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — 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 Cumberland City
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cumberland City. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GEORGIA-PACIFIC GYPSUM LLC - CUMBERLANDToxics Release Inventory · 2600 ft
- GEORGIA-PACIFIC GYPSUM LLC - CUMBERLANDBrownfields · 2600 ft
- SYNTHETIC MATERIALS - CUMBERLANDToxics Release Inventory · 0.5 mi
- CUMBERLAND CITY PLASTICSToxics Release Inventory · 0.7 mi
- Sudden Service No. 61Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Faa/qyxrclUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- W T Thomas SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- F and S Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Debby Hughes Andd Ricky LynchUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- CUMBERLANDSuperfund · 1.1 mi
- CUMBERLANDToxics Release Inventory · 1.1 mi
- CUMBERLANDBrownfields · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cumberland City'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 Cumberland City.
Total Sites
63
within ~10 miles of Cumberland City
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cumberland City
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cumberland City
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cumberland City, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Cumberland City — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (44 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 Cumberland City
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 Cumberland City average
Your land is one point inside Cumberland City
Everything above resolves to Cumberland City as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Cumberland City Average
Cumberland City Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Cumberland City
- ●One soil character for all of Cumberland City
- ●Frost dates read at Cumberland City's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cumberland City's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cumberland City
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cumberland City, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cumberland City averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cumberland City — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cumberland City average
How we know this about Cumberland City
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 Cumberland City’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 Cumberland City
When does frost risk typically end in Cumberland City?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cumberland City typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Cumberland City?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cumberland City typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 232 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cumberland City?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cumberland City sees about 232 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Oct 27, about 197 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cumberland City?
The federal record around Cumberland City is a meaningful one — 63 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (44), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.5 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 Cumberland City?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cumberland City's scale — its 7b band and its 232-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cumberland City'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 Cumberland City’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Cumberland City's own scale — its own ~232-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,203 acres it covers and 63 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cumberland City's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cumberland City's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 10 and the ~232-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 63 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cumberland City, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cumberland City's boundary and the 3,203 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~232-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Cumberland City's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cumberland City's 3,203 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Stewart County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Stewart 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 Stewart County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cumberland City's 3,203 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cumberland City you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,203 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.5 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 Cumberland City-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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