Kahite, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Kahite, 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 Kahite lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Kahite — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Kahite — the short answer
Kahite, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 238 days between hard freezes, across 832 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 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~238
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 832 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 Kahite's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kahite's 238-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kahite
Each reading below is measured for Kahite itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKahite runs about 238 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
MeasuredKahite 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 Kahite is in
Kahite sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kahite's own centroid rather than borrowed from Monroe County.
What Grows in Kahite
Every plant below cleared Kahite's own zone 7b and its 238-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kahite?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 12 — 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.
Documented around Kahite
Survey cells within 31 miles of Kahite checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 77 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Kahite
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kahite. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Derby Downs Shopping CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Mr:R-053 UTEN98-10Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- Vic's Full ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Mikels MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Fort Loudon State ParkUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Duncan Log Cabin StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Overhead Door CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Toqua Beach MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Lehigh Gas Wholesale Services, Inc./TN0033Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Bill Sloan's Supply No. 2Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- Rasar LandingUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- Ethridge AmocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kahite'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 Kahite.
Total Sites
147
within ~10 miles of Kahite
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kahite
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kahite
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kahite, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Kahite — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (17 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.
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 Kahite
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 Kahite average
Your land is one point inside Kahite
Everything above resolves to Kahite as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 832 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 Kahite Average
Kahite Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Kahite
- ●One soil character for all of Kahite
- ●Frost dates read at Kahite's scale: Mar 19 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kahite's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kahite
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kahite, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kahite averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kahite — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kahite average
How we know this about Kahite
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 Kahite’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 Kahite
When does frost risk typically end in Kahite?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kahite 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 Kahite?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kahite typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 238 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kahite?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kahite sees about 238 frost-free days — roughly Mar 19 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 9 to Oct 29, about 203 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kahite?
The federal record around Kahite is a meaningful one — 147 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (92), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.4 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 Kahite?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Kahite's scale — its 7b band and its 238-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kahite'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 Kahite’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Kahite's own scale — its own ~238-day season between 28°F freezes, the 832 acres it covers and 147 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kahite's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kahite's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 19 and Nov 12 and the ~238-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 147 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kahite, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kahite's boundary and the 832 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~238-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kahite's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Kahite checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kahite's 832 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Monroe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Monroe 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 Monroe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kahite's 832 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kahite you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 832 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.4 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 Kahite-wide figureread your own land →
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