Page, Arizona, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Page, 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 Page 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 Page — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Page — the short answer
Page, Arizona: USDA zone 8b, about 270 days between hard freezes, across 24K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 24
- 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
- ~270
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 24K 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 8b is Page's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Page's 270-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Page
Each reading below is measured for Page itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPage runs about 270 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
MeasuredPage sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Page is in
Page sits in the Colorado Plateaus — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Page'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 Page
Every plant below cleared Page's own zone 8b and its 270-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arizona profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Page?
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 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 24 (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. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Page
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Page. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ADOT - PAGE MAINTENANCE YARD & HOUSINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- A-41-08 23DCDNitrate · 1.0 mi
- A-41-08 23DACNitrate · 1.0 mi
- A-41-08 14BCANitrate · 1.0 mi
- A-41-08 14BCBNitrate · 1.1 mi
- USDOI BR - GLEN CANYON DAM & POWERPLANTSuperfund · 1.5 mi
- USDOI BR - GLEN CANYON DAM & POWERPLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- USDOI BR - GLEN CANYON DAM & POWERPLANTBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- CITY OF PAGE - WWTPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- CITY OF PAGE MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- MAVERIK COUNTRY STORE #398Underground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- WAL-MART SUPERCENTER 1442Brownfields · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Page'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 Page.
Total Sites
70
within ~10 miles of Page
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Page
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Page
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Page, Mining runs higher than the national average — 7 sites within ~10 miles of Page. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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.
Check your specific parcel in Page
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 Page average
Your land is one point inside Page
Everything above resolves to Page as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 24K 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 Page Average
Page Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Page
- ●One soil character for all of Page
- ●Frost dates read at Page's scale: Feb 24 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Page's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Page
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Page, Arizona — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Page — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Page average
How we know this about Page
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 Page’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 Page
When does frost risk typically end in Page?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Page typically lands around Feb 24, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Page?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Page 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 270 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Page?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Page sees about 270 frost-free days — roughly Feb 24 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 17 to Nov 7, about 235 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Page?
The federal record around Page is a meaningful one — 70 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (34), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Page?
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 Page's scale — its 8b band and its 270-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Page'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 Page’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Page's own scale — its own ~270-day season between 28°F freezes, the 24,436 acres it covers and 70 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Page's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Page's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 24 and Nov 21 and the ~270-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 70 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Page, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Page's boundary and the 24,436 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~270-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Page 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 Page's 24,436 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 Page's 24,436 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Page you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 24,436 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.9 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 Page-wide figureread your own land →