Sevierville, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Sevierville, 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 Sevierville 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 Sevierville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Sevierville — the short answer
Sevierville, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 235 days between hard freezes, across 16K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~235
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 16K 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 Sevierville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sevierville's 235-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sevierville
Each reading below is measured for Sevierville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSevierville runs about 235 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
MeasuredSevierville 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 Sevierville is in
Sevierville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sevierville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Sevier County is mostly Blue Ridge. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Sevierville
Every plant below cleared Sevierville's own zone 7b and its 235-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sevierville?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — 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 Sevierville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Sevierville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 58 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sevierville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sevierville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TARGET STORE T2903Brownfields · 1400 ft
- EMCO-WILLIAMS INCToxics Release Inventory · 2300 ft
- PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS #1713Brownfields · 2400 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #6361Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- ACTIVATED METALS & CHEMICALS INCORPORATEDToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- Dan's Boat SalesUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Kroger Store 562Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- KROGER #562-26Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- Kelco LtdUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Dale Proffitt's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- LOWE'S OF SEVIERVILLE #693Brownfields · 0.9 mi
- Roark Construction CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sevierville'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 Sevierville.
Total Sites
263
within ~10 miles of Sevierville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
13 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sevierville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sevierville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sevierville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Sevierville — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (209 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Sevierville
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 Sevierville average
Your land is one point inside Sevierville
Everything above resolves to Sevierville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 16K 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 city 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 Sevierville Average
Sevierville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Sevierville
- ●One soil character for all of Sevierville
- ●Frost dates read at Sevierville's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sevierville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Sevierville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sevierville, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sevierville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sevierville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sevierville average
How we know this about Sevierville
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Sevierville’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Sevierville
When does frost risk typically end in Sevierville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sevierville typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Sevierville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sevierville typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 235 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sevierville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sevierville sees about 235 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Oct 27, about 200 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sevierville?
The federal record around Sevierville is a meaningful one — 263 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (209), the nearest Brownfields 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 Sevierville?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sevierville's scale — its 7b band and its 235-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sevierville'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 Sevierville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sevierville's own scale — its own ~235-day season between 28°F freezes, the 15,580 acres it covers and 263 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sevierville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sevierville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 10 and the ~235-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 263 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sevierville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sevierville's boundary and the 15,580 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~235-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Sevierville sits in the Ridge and Valley — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Sevierville 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 Sevierville's 15,580 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sevier County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sevier 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 Sevier County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sevierville's 15,580 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sevierville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 15,580 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Sevierville-wide figureread your own land →