Tellico Village, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Tellico Village, 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 Tellico Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Tellico Village — the short answer
Tellico Village, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 245 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~245
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 5K 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 Tellico Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tellico Village's 245-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tellico Village
Each reading below is measured for Tellico Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTellico Village runs about 245 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
MeasuredTellico Village 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 Tellico Village is in
Tellico Village sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Tellico Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Loudon County.
What Grows in Tellico Village
Every plant below cleared Tellico Village's own zone 7b and its 245-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tellico Village?
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 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Tellico Village
Survey cells within 31 miles of Tellico Village checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 81 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Tellico Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tellico Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Mr. Gas Market No. 9Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- CHEESTANA WAY PESTICIDE RELEASESuperfund · 1.3 mi
- Toqua Golf CourseUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Simpson's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- 72 Market and DeliUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- Lo:G-001Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- WATKINS ROAD DRUM SITESuperfund · 3.3 mi
- Transport Service CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- GREENBACK ASPHALT CO., INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 3.7 mi
- REAL ALLOY RECYCLING LLCToxics Release Inventory · 3.9 mi
- HARRISON DAIRY INCCAFO · 3.9 mi
- Glendale SupermarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tellico Village'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 Tellico Village.
Total Sites
266
within ~10 miles of Tellico Village
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tellico Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tellico Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tellico Village, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Tellico Village — Toxics Release Inventory (35 sites) and PFAS (4 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.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Tellico Village
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 Tellico Village average
Your land is one point inside Tellico Village
Everything above resolves to Tellico Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 Tellico Village Average
Tellico Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Tellico Village
- ●One soil character for all of Tellico Village
- ●Frost dates read at Tellico Village's scale: Mar 18 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tellico Village's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tellico Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tellico Village, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tellico Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tellico Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tellico Village average
How we know this about Tellico Village
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 Tellico Village’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 Tellico Village
When does frost risk typically end in Tellico Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tellico Village typically lands around Mar 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Tellico Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tellico Village typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 245 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tellico Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tellico Village sees about 245 frost-free days — roughly Mar 18 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 8 to Nov 4, about 210 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tellico Village?
The federal record around Tellico Village runs heavier than most — 266 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (154), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Tellico Village?
From about Oct 19 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tellico Village's scale — its 7b band and its 245-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tellico Village'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 Tellico Village’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Tellico Village's own scale — its own ~245-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,772 acres it covers and 266 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tellico Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tellico Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 18 and Nov 18 and the ~245-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 266 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tellico Village, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tellico Village's boundary and the 4,772 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~245-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tellico Village's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Tellico Village 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 Tellico Village's 4,772 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Loudon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Loudon 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 Loudon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tellico Village's 4,772 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tellico Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,772 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 Tellico Village-wide figureread your own land →
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