LeChee, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in LeChee, 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 LeChee 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 LeChee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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LeChee — the short answer
LeChee, Arizona: USDA zone 8a, about 269 days between hard freezes, across 11K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~269
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 11K 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 8a is LeChee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against LeChee's 269-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in LeChee
Each reading below is measured for LeChee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLeChee runs about 269 days between hard freezes — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredLeChee sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 LeChee is in
LeChee sits in the Colorado Plateaus — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at LeChee's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Coconino County is mostly Arizona/New Mexico Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in LeChee
Every plant below cleared LeChee's own zone 8a and its 269-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in LeChee?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near LeChee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of LeChee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CITY OF PAGE - FIRE TRAINING GROUNDSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- UPS PAGEBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- WILDERNESS RIVER ADVENTURESUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- BIG LAKE TRADING POSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- ANTELOPE TRAVEL RECREATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- SALT RIVER PROJECT NAVAJO GENERATING STATIONToxics Release Inventory · 3.5 mi
- PAGE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT #8Underground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- SUNSHINE FUEL & PROPERTIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- 01-028-05.90X07.90Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- PAGE CHEVRON/KAR MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- LAKE POWELL FORDBrownfields · 4.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from LeChee'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 LeChee.
Total Sites
63
within ~10 miles of LeChee
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of LeChee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of LeChee
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around LeChee, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 18 sites within ~10 miles of LeChee. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in LeChee
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 LeChee average
Your land is one point inside LeChee
Everything above resolves to LeChee as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 11K 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 LeChee Average
LeChee Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across LeChee
- ●One soil character for all of LeChee
- ●Frost dates read at LeChee's scale: Feb 25 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not LeChee's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in LeChee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in LeChee, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that LeChee averages can't show:
We read public map data around LeChee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the LeChee average
How we know this about LeChee
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 LeChee’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 LeChee
When does frost risk typically end in LeChee?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in LeChee typically lands around Feb 25, 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 Mar 18.
When is the first frost in LeChee?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in LeChee typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 269 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in LeChee?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, LeChee sees about 269 frost-free days — roughly Feb 25 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 18 to Nov 7, about 234 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in LeChee?
The federal record around LeChee is a meaningful one — 63 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (32), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.1 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 LeChee?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at LeChee's scale — its 8a band and its 269-day season. Your yard writes its own version of LeChee'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 LeChee’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at LeChee's own scale — its own ~269-day season between 28°F freezes, the 10,638 acres it covers and 63 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- LeChee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- LeChee's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 25 and Nov 21 and the ~269-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 63 documented contamination sites on the federal record near LeChee, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- LeChee's boundary and the 10,638 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~269-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- LeChee sits in the Colorado Plateaus — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so LeChee's 10,638 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Coconino County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Coconino County
- The growing challenges every Arizona grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Arizona
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Coconino County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among LeChee's 10,638 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of LeChee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 10,638 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.1 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 LeChee-wide figureread your own land →