Scotts Hill, 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.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Scotts Hill, 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 Scotts Hill lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Scotts Hill — the short answer
Scotts Hill, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 231 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- 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
- ~231
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Scotts Hill's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Scotts Hill's 231-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Scotts Hill
Each reading below is measured for Scotts Hill itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredScotts Hill runs about 231 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
MeasuredScotts Hill 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 Scotts Hill is in
Scotts Hill sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Scotts Hill's own centroid rather than borrowed from Henderson County.
What Grows in Scotts Hill
Every plant below cleared Scotts Hill's own zone 7b and its 231-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Scotts Hill?
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 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (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. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Scotts Hill
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Scotts Hill. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Todds Gro C/o River OilUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- HE:G-001Nitrate · 2200 ft
- Dale Rogers*Underground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Scotts Hill PlazaUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Rhodes Food FairUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- He:G-011Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- M And M GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- M---5Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SCOTTS HILL WATER SYSTEMPFAS · 0.8 mi
- MCCALL-STAR DIVToxics Release Inventory · 2.1 mi
- Dc:D-011Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- Lancasters ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Scotts Hill'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 Scotts Hill.
Total Sites
74
within ~10 miles of Scotts Hill
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Scotts Hill
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Scotts Hill
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Scotts Hill, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 55 sites within ~10 miles of Scotts Hill. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Scotts Hill
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 Scotts Hill average
Your land is one point inside Scotts Hill
Everything above resolves to Scotts Hill as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Scotts Hill Average
Scotts Hill Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Scotts Hill
- ●One soil character for all of Scotts Hill
- ●Frost dates read at Scotts Hill's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Scotts Hill's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Scotts Hill
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Scotts Hill, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Scotts Hill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Scotts Hill average
How we know this about Scotts Hill
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 Scotts Hill’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 Scotts Hill
When does frost risk typically end in Scotts Hill?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Scotts Hill typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Scotts Hill?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Scotts Hill 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 231 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Scotts Hill?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Scotts Hill sees about 231 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Oct 26, about 196 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Scotts Hill?
The federal record around Scotts Hill is a meaningful one — 74 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (55), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Scotts Hill?
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 Scotts Hill's scale — its 7b band and its 231-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Scotts Hill'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 Scotts Hill’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Scotts Hill's own scale — its own ~231-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,346 acres it covers and 74 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Scotts Hill's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Scotts Hill's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 9 and the ~231-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 74 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Scotts Hill, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Scotts Hill's boundary and the 2,346 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~231-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Scotts Hill's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Scotts Hill's 2,346 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Henderson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Henderson 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 Henderson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Scotts Hill's 2,346 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Scotts Hill you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,346 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Scotts Hill-wide figureread your own land →