Fairfield Glade, 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.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Fairfield Glade, 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 Fairfield Glade lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Fairfield Glade — the short answer
Fairfield Glade, Tennessee: USDA zone 7a, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 15K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 15K 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 Fairfield Glade's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fairfield Glade's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fairfield Glade
Each reading below is measured for Fairfield Glade itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFairfield Glade runs about 215 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
MeasuredFairfield Glade 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 Fairfield Glade is in
Fairfield Glade sits in the Southwestern Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Fairfield Glade's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cumberland County.
What Grows in Fairfield Glade
Every plant below cleared Fairfield Glade's own zone 7a and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fairfield Glade?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — 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 Fairfield Glade
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fairfield Glade. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Fairfield Glade MarinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Stonehenge Golf ClubUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- KROGER #597-26Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- Stonehenge MaintenanceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Weigel's #76Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Vehicle Maint ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- Heatherhurst MaintenanceUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Heatherhurst Pro ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Bread Box No. 50Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- Ian's MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- Gas N Go no. 662Underground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- Get N Go MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fairfield Glade'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 Fairfield Glade.
Total Sites
168
within ~10 miles of Fairfield Glade
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
9 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fairfield Glade
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fairfield Glade
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fairfield Glade, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 141 sites within ~10 miles of Fairfield Glade. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Fairfield Glade
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 Fairfield Glade average
Your land is one point inside Fairfield Glade
Everything above resolves to Fairfield Glade as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 15K 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 Fairfield Glade Average
Fairfield Glade Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Fairfield Glade
- ●One soil character for all of Fairfield Glade
- ●Frost dates read at Fairfield Glade's scale: Mar 30 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fairfield Glade's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fairfield Glade
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fairfield Glade, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fairfield Glade averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fairfield Glade — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fairfield Glade average
How we know this about Fairfield Glade
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 Fairfield Glade’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 Fairfield Glade
When does frost risk typically end in Fairfield Glade?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fairfield Glade typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Fairfield Glade?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fairfield Glade typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fairfield Glade?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fairfield Glade sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 17, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fairfield Glade?
The federal record around Fairfield Glade shows 168 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (141), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Fairfield Glade?
From about Oct 1 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 Oct 31 (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 Oct 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fairfield Glade's scale — its 7a band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fairfield Glade'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 Fairfield Glade’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Fairfield Glade's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 14,720 acres it covers and 168 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fairfield Glade's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fairfield Glade's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Oct 31 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 168 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fairfield Glade, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fairfield Glade's boundary and the 14,720 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Fairfield Glade's own centroid, the Southwestern AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Fairfield Glade's 14,720 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cumberland County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cumberland 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 Cumberland County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fairfield Glade's 14,720 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fairfield Glade you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 14,720 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Fairfield Glade-wide figureread your own land →