Cedaredge, Colorado, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Cedaredge, 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 Cedaredge lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Cedaredge — the short answer
Cedaredge, Colorado: USDA zone 7a, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~192
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 7a is Cedaredge's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cedaredge's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cedaredge
Each reading below is measured for Cedaredge itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCedaredge runs about 192 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCedaredge sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Cedaredge is in
Cedaredge sits in the Colorado Plateaus — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Cedaredge's own centroid rather than borrowed from Delta County.
What Grows in Cedaredge
Every plant below cleared Cedaredge's own zone 7a and its 192-day season. Each card opens that plant's Colorado profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cedaredge?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Cedaredge
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cedaredge. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Triple Treat SinclairUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Cedaredge ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Go-Fer Foods CedaredgeUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Former BJ's Express Gas LlcUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Orchard City ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Spruce LodgeUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Moze Floral ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Austins Conoco ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- CDOT CedaredgeUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Austins ConocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Aspen Trails CampgroundUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cedaredge'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 Cedaredge.
Total Sites
27
within ~10 miles of Cedaredge
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cedaredge
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cedaredge
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cedaredge, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 22 sites within ~10 miles of Cedaredge. 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 Cedaredge
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 Cedaredge average
Your land is one point inside Cedaredge
Everything above resolves to Cedaredge as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Cedaredge Average
Cedaredge Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Cedaredge
- ●One soil character for all of Cedaredge
- ●Frost dates read at Cedaredge's scale: Apr 15 to Oct 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cedaredge's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cedaredge
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cedaredge, Colorado — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cedaredge averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cedaredge — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cedaredge average
How we know this about Cedaredge
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 Cedaredge’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 Cedaredge
When does frost risk typically end in Cedaredge?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cedaredge typically lands around Apr 15, 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 May 6.
When is the first frost in Cedaredge?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cedaredge typically arrives around Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 10, so the watching starts about Sep 24 — about 192 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cedaredge?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cedaredge sees about 192 frost-free days — roughly Apr 15 through Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 6 to Oct 10, about 157 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cedaredge?
The federal record around Cedaredge is a meaningful one — 27 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (22), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Cedaredge?
From about Sep 24 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 Oct 24 (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 Oct 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cedaredge's scale — its 7a band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cedaredge'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 Cedaredge’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Cedaredge's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,255 acres it covers and 27 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cedaredge's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cedaredge's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 15 and Oct 24 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 27 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cedaredge, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cedaredge's boundary and the 1,255 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~192-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Cedaredge's own centroid, the Colorado PlateausUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cedaredge's 1,255 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Delta County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Delta County
- The growing challenges every Colorado grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Colorado
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Delta County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cedaredge's 1,255 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cedaredge you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,255 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Cedaredge-wide figureread your own land →
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