Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government, 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.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government, 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 Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government — the short answer
Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 223 days between hard freezes, across 83K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~223
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 83K 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 Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's 223-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
Each reading below is measured for Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government runs about 223 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
MeasuredLynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government 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 Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government is in
Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's own centroid rather than borrowed from Moore County.
What Grows in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
Every plant below cleared Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's own zone 7b and its 223-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- JACK DANIEL DISTILLERYToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- JACK DANIEL DISTILLERYBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- Moore Co Board Of EducationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Ed's Bi-riteUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Cashion Bros TexacoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Blackburn's Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Bailey's AmocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Moore County Highway DeptUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Bakertown StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Joe Anodinetti Dba Lost Creek BaUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Jack Daniel DistilleryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Clark's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government'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 Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government.
Total Sites
134
within ~10 miles of Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
9 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government — Toxics Release Inventory (9 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (87 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
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Your land is one point inside Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
Everything above resolves to Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 83K 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 Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government Average
Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
- ●One soil character for all of Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
- ●Frost dates read at Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
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 Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government’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 Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government
When does frost risk typically end in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government typically lands around Mar 28, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 223 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government sees about 223 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Oct 23, about 188 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government?
The federal record around Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government shows 134 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (87), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory 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 Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's scale — its 7b band and its 223-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government'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 Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's own scale — its own ~223-day season between 28°F freezes, the 82,703 acres it covers and 134 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 6 and the ~223-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 134 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's boundary and the 82,703 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~223-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's 82,703 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Moore County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Moore 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 Moore County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government's 82,703 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 82,703 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory 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 Lynchburg, Moore County metropolitan government-wide figureread your own land →
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