Westpoint, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Westpoint, 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 Westpoint lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Westpoint — the short answer
Westpoint, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 239 days between hard freezes, across 573 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~239
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 573 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 Westpoint's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Westpoint's 239-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Westpoint
Each reading below is measured for Westpoint itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWestpoint runs about 239 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
MeasuredWestpoint 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 Westpoint is in
Westpoint sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Westpoint's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lawrence County.
What Grows in Westpoint
Every plant below cleared Westpoint's own zone 7b and its 239-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Westpoint?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — 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 Westpoint
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Westpoint. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- South Central - WspntnrsUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- Story Brothers GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- Lawrence County StockyardUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- ClosedUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- Etheredge Mfg CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- Loretto Car WashUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.4 mi
- Carter's Video,tanning And PizzaUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.5 mi
- Liberty Grove GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- T.c. Peters Meat MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- City Of St JosephUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
- Quik Mart #15Underground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- Video's PlusUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Westpoint'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 Westpoint.
Total Sites
43
within ~10 miles of Westpoint
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Westpoint
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Westpoint
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Westpoint, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 36 sites within ~10 miles of Westpoint. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Westpoint
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 Westpoint
Everything above resolves to Westpoint as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 573 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 Westpoint Average
Westpoint Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Westpoint
- ●One soil character for all of Westpoint
- ●Frost dates read at Westpoint's scale: Mar 17 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Westpoint's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Westpoint
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Westpoint, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Westpoint averages can't show:
We read public map data around Westpoint — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Westpoint average
How we know this about Westpoint
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 Westpoint’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 Westpoint
When does frost risk typically end in Westpoint?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Westpoint typically lands around Mar 17, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Westpoint?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Westpoint typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 239 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Westpoint?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Westpoint sees about 239 frost-free days — roughly Mar 17 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 7 to Oct 28, about 204 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Westpoint?
The federal record around Westpoint is light — 43 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (36), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Westpoint?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Westpoint's scale — its 7b band and its 239-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Westpoint'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 Westpoint’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Westpoint's own scale — its own ~239-day season between 28°F freezes, the 573 acres it covers and 43 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Westpoint's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Westpoint's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 17 and Nov 11 and the ~239-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 43 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Westpoint, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Westpoint's boundary and the 573 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~239-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Westpoint's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Westpoint's 573 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lawrence County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lawrence 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 Lawrence County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Westpoint's 573 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Westpoint you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 573 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Westpoint-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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