Meridian Village, Colorado, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Meridian Village, 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 Meridian Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Meridian Village — the short answer
Meridian Village, Colorado: USDA zone 6a, about 170 days between hard freezes, across 326 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~170
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 326 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 6a is Meridian Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Meridian Village's 170-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Meridian Village
Each reading below is measured for Meridian Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMeridian Village runs about 170 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
MeasuredMeridian Village sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Meridian Village is in
Meridian Village sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Meridian Village's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Douglas County is mostly Southwestern Tablelands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Meridian Village
Every plant below cleared Meridian Village's own zone 6a and its 170-day season. Each card opens that plant's Colorado profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Meridian Village?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 31; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 28 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 15 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Meridian Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Meridian Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SC00606607CAC DENMAS08Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- SC0066617BCD SWQA-12Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- SC00606607DBD DAWMAS07Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- Parker Fire Protection DistrictUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- SC00606609AABNitrate · 1.3 mi
- THE CENTER AT LINCOLNBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- SC00606608CBBNitrate · 1.3 mi
- Waterway Gas & WashUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- LINCOLN SURGERY CENTER LLCBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- CST Metro LLC DBA Corner Store #1189Underground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Circle K Store #2709893Underground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- RMC-NBrownfields · 1.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Meridian Village'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 Meridian Village.
Total Sites
1,166
within ~10 miles of Meridian Village
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Meridian Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Meridian Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Meridian Village, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 12 sites within ~10 miles of Meridian Village. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Meridian Village
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 Meridian Village average
Your land is one point inside Meridian Village
Everything above resolves to Meridian Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 326 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 Meridian Village Average
Meridian Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Meridian Village
- ●One soil character for all of Meridian Village
- ●Frost dates read at Meridian Village's scale: Apr 28 to Oct 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Meridian Village's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Meridian Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Meridian Village, Colorado — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Meridian Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around Meridian Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Meridian Village average
How we know this about Meridian Village
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 Meridian Village’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 Meridian Village
When does frost risk typically end in Meridian Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Meridian Village typically lands around Apr 28, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Meridian Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Meridian Village typically arrives around Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 1, so the watching starts about Sep 15 — about 170 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Meridian Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Meridian Village sees about 170 frost-free days — roughly Apr 28 through Oct 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 19 to Oct 1, about 135 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Meridian Village?
The federal record around Meridian Village runs heavier than most — 1,166 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (466), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.9 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Meridian Village?
From about Sep 15 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Meridian Village's scale — its 6a band and its 170-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Meridian Village'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 Meridian Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Meridian Village's own scale — its own ~170-day season between 28°F freezes, the 326 acres it covers and 1,166 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Meridian Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Meridian Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 28 and Oct 15 and the ~170-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,166 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Meridian Village, the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Meridian Village's boundary and the 326 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~170-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Meridian Village sits in the High Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Meridian Village's 326 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Douglas County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Douglas 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 Douglas County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Meridian Village's 326 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Meridian Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 326 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Meridian Village-wide figureread your own land →
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