Parrottsville, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Parrottsville, 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 Parrottsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Parrottsville — the short answer
Parrottsville, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 226 days between hard freezes, across 474 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~226
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 474 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 Parrottsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Parrottsville's 226-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Parrottsville
Each reading below is measured for Parrottsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredParrottsville runs about 226 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
MeasuredParrottsville 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 Parrottsville is in
Parrottsville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Parrottsville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Cocke County is mostly Blue Ridge. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Parrottsville
Every plant below cleared Parrottsville's own zone 7b and its 226-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Parrottsville?
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 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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.
Documented around Parrottsville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Parrottsville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 41 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Parrottsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Parrottsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Elbert OttingerUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Parrottsville Ruritan ClubUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Parrottsville GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Loyd OttingerUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Community MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Parrottsville Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- Parrotts PlaceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Parrottsville Properties LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Parrotsville SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Hommel Construction CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Neas GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- Old Parrottsville SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Parrottsville'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 Parrottsville.
Total Sites
164
within ~10 miles of Parrottsville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Parrottsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Parrottsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Parrottsville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Parrottsville — Superfund (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (119 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Parrottsville
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 Parrottsville
Everything above resolves to Parrottsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 474 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 Parrottsville Average
Parrottsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Parrottsville
- ●One soil character for all of Parrottsville
- ●Frost dates read at Parrottsville's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Parrottsville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Parrottsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Parrottsville, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Parrottsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Parrottsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Parrottsville average
How we know this about Parrottsville
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 Parrottsville’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 Parrottsville
When does frost risk typically end in Parrottsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Parrottsville typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Parrottsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Parrottsville typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 226 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Parrottsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Parrottsville sees about 226 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 24, about 191 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Parrottsville?
The federal record around Parrottsville is a meaningful one — 164 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (119), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Parrottsville?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Parrottsville's scale — its 7b band and its 226-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Parrottsville'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 Parrottsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Parrottsville's own scale — its own ~226-day season between 28°F freezes, the 474 acres it covers and 164 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Parrottsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Parrottsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 7 and the ~226-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 164 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Parrottsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Parrottsville's boundary and the 474 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~226-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Parrottsville sits in the Ridge and Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Parrottsville 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 Parrottsville's 474 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cocke County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cocke 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 Cocke County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Parrottsville's 474 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Parrottsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 474 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 Parrottsville-wide figureread your own land →
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