Sneedville, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Sneedville, 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 Sneedville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Sneedville — the short answer
Sneedville, Tennessee: USDA zone 7a, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 7a is Sneedville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sneedville's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sneedville
Each reading below is measured for Sneedville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSneedville runs about 215 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
MeasuredSneedville sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Sneedville is in
Sneedville sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sneedville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hancock County.
What Grows in Sneedville
Every plant below cleared Sneedville's own zone 7a and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sneedville?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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.
Documented around Sneedville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Sneedville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 54 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sneedville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sneedville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MORRILL MOTORS INCORPORATEDToxics Release Inventory · 1200 ft
- HANCOCK COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITALBrownfields · 1600 ft
- Hancock Trans DeptUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- RITE AID #03344Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- Hancock Farmers CooperativeUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Powell Valley Electric Coop IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Corner MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Hancock Co Highway DeptUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Jerry's ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Sneedville 66Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Davis And SonUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Hancock Co TransportationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sneedville'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 Sneedville.
Total Sites
91
within ~10 miles of Sneedville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sneedville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sneedville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sneedville, Mining runs higher than the national average — 32 sites within ~10 miles of Sneedville. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
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Your land is one point inside Sneedville
Everything above resolves to Sneedville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Sneedville Average
Sneedville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Sneedville
- ●One soil character for all of Sneedville
- ●Frost dates read at Sneedville's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sneedville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sneedville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sneedville, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sneedville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sneedville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Sneedville
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 Sneedville’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 Sneedville
When does frost risk typically end in Sneedville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sneedville typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Sneedville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sneedville typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sneedville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sneedville sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 20, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sneedville?
The federal record around Sneedville shows 91 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (37), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory 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 Sneedville?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sneedville's scale — its 7a band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sneedville'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 Sneedville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sneedville's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,470 acres it covers and 91 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sneedville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sneedville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 3 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 91 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sneedville, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sneedville's boundary and the 1,470 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Sneedville's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Sneedville 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 Sneedville's 1,470 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hancock County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hancock 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 Hancock County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sneedville's 1,470 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sneedville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,470 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory 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 Sneedville-wide figureread your own land →
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