Woodland Mills, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Woodland Mills, 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 Woodland Mills lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Woodland Mills — the short answer
Woodland Mills, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 235 days between hard freezes, across 814 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- 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
- ~235
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 814 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 Woodland Mills's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodland Mills's 235-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodland Mills
Each reading below is measured for Woodland Mills itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodland Mills 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
MeasuredWoodland Mills 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 Woodland Mills is in
Woodland Mills sits in the Mississippi Valley Loess Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Woodland Mills's own centroid rather than borrowed from Obion County.
What Grows in Woodland Mills
Every plant below cleared Woodland Mills'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 Woodland Mills?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (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. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Woodland Mills
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodland Mills. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Woodland Lime CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- NANNEY'S BODY & HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENTBrownfields · 2300 ft
- Woodland Mills MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- X - Presso Convience StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Lattus Dist CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- Nettles PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- K3D0040Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- Goodyear Tire And Rubber CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Don CraddockUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- K3D0021Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- Colony MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- Lake Road Elementary SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodland Mills'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 Woodland Mills.
Total Sites
248
within ~10 miles of Woodland Mills
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodland Mills
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodland Mills
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodland Mills, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Woodland Mills — CAFO (5 sites) and Nitrate (88 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Woodland Mills
Everything above resolves to Woodland Mills as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 814 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 Woodland Mills Average
Woodland Mills Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Woodland Mills
- ●One soil character for all of Woodland Mills
- ●Frost dates read at Woodland Mills's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodland Mills's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Woodland Mills — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Woodland Mills
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 Woodland Mills’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 Woodland Mills
When does frost risk typically end in Woodland Mills?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodland Mills typically lands around Mar 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Woodland Mills?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodland Mills 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 235 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodland Mills?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodland Mills sees about 235 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Oct 28, about 200 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodland Mills?
The federal record around Woodland Mills is a meaningful one — 248 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (124), 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 Woodland Mills?
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 Woodland Mills's scale — its 7b band and its 235-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodland Mills'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 Woodland Mills’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Woodland Mills's own scale — its own ~235-day season between 28°F freezes, the 814 acres it covers and 248 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodland Mills's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodland Mills's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 11 and the ~235-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 248 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodland Mills, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodland Mills's boundary and the 814 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~235-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Woodland Mills's own centroid, the Mississippi Valley Loess PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodland Mills's 814 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Obion County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Obion 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 Obion County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodland Mills's 814 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodland Mills you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 814 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 Woodland Mills-wide figureread your own land →