Luttrell, 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.
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 Luttrell, 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 Luttrell lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Luttrell — the short answer
Luttrell, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 3K 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
- 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 Luttrell's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Luttrell's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Luttrell
Each reading below is measured for Luttrell itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLuttrell 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
MeasuredLuttrell 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 Luttrell is in
Luttrell sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Luttrell's own centroid rather than borrowed from Union County.
What Grows in Luttrell
Every plant below cleared Luttrell'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 Luttrell?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Luttrell
Survey cells within 31 miles of Luttrell checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 78 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Luttrell
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Luttrell. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Big Bates Investments, LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Clinch Mountain MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Kenneth AilorUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Tennessee Limestone CorpUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Fred Wenger, Jr.Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Friends Market and DeliUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Un:C-006Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- O-N MINERALS (LUTTRELL) COMPANYToxics Release Inventory · 2.3 mi
- Wariota Healthcare Ctr #1716Underground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- Treece ProspectMining · 3.8 mi
- Pit Stop Market and DeliUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- Pitt Stop Market And DeliUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Luttrell'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 Luttrell.
Total Sites
139
within ~10 miles of Luttrell
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
7 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Luttrell
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Luttrell
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Luttrell, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Luttrell — Mining (8 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (89 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Luttrell
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Luttrell
Everything above resolves to Luttrell 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 Luttrell Average
Luttrell Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Luttrell
- ●One soil character for all of Luttrell
- ●Frost dates read at Luttrell's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Luttrell's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Luttrell
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Luttrell, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Luttrell averages can't show:
We read public map data around Luttrell — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Luttrell average
How we know this about Luttrell
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 Luttrell’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 Luttrell
When does frost risk typically end in Luttrell?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Luttrell 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 Luttrell?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Luttrell 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 Luttrell?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Luttrell 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 Luttrell?
The federal record around Luttrell shows 139 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (89), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Luttrell?
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 Luttrell's scale — its 7b band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Luttrell'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 Luttrell’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Luttrell's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,516 acres it covers and 139 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Luttrell's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Luttrell's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 9 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 139 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Luttrell, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Luttrell's boundary and the 2,516 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 Luttrell's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Luttrell 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 Luttrell's 2,516 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Union County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Union 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 Union County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Luttrell's 2,516 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Luttrell you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,516 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Luttrell-wide figureread your own land →
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