Huntland, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Huntland, 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 Huntland lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Huntland — the short answer
Huntland, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 975 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~233
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 975 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 Huntland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Huntland's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Huntland
Each reading below is measured for Huntland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHuntland runs about 233 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
MeasuredHuntland 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 Huntland is in
Huntland sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Huntland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Franklin County.
What Grows in Huntland
Every plant below cleared Huntland's own zone 7b and its 233-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Huntland?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Huntland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Huntland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Huntland MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- Co-op One StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- Franklin Farmers Co-opUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- H-Town Auto and DieselUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Town Of HuntlandUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Huntland Mini MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Dacco IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Russell's AmocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- United Appliance MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Ray M Johnson And CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Fr:F-004Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- Fr:F-003Nitrate · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Huntland'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 Huntland.
Total Sites
47
within ~10 miles of Huntland
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Huntland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Huntland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Huntland, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Huntland — Nitrate (14 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (30 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Huntland
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 Huntland average
Your land is one point inside Huntland
Everything above resolves to Huntland as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 975 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 Huntland Average
Huntland Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Huntland
- ●One soil character for all of Huntland
- ●Frost dates read at Huntland's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Huntland's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Huntland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Huntland, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Huntland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Huntland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Huntland average
How we know this about Huntland
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 Huntland’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 Huntland
When does frost risk typically end in Huntland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Huntland typically lands around Mar 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Huntland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Huntland typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 233 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Huntland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Huntland sees about 233 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Oct 26, about 198 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Huntland?
The federal record around Huntland is light — 47 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (30), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Huntland?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Huntland's scale — its 7b band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Huntland'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 Huntland’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Huntland's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 975 acres it covers and 47 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Huntland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Huntland's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 9 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 47 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Huntland, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Huntland's boundary and the 975 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~233-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Huntland's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Huntland's 975 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Franklin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Franklin 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 Franklin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Huntland's 975 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Huntland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 975 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Huntland-wide figureread your own land →
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